Reseller Cloud Hosting Based On cPanel/WHM Launched By Cloud.bg

Provider of cPanel Cloud Hosting, Cloud.bg announced the official launch of its Reseller Cloud Hosting, a plan. It offers online entrepreneurs the opportunity to move to the clouds risk-free without a need to deal with system administration or software licensing.

The web host made possible for its resellers to use familiar Reseller Hosting control panel of cPanel Inc. - Web Host Manager (WHM) on the cloud. The Reseller plan called rCloud.

rCloud features 2,000 GB of premium bandwidth, 100 GB quality replicated SAN storage and allows clients to host up to 200 websites on a high availability, load-balanced cluster of servers.

Resellers get private DNS, free Dedicated IP, Cloud Analytics, Antispam, Antivirus, Horde Groupware E-Mail and other features typical for the L.A.M.P hosting services. The rCloud support mySQL 5, Apache 2.2, PHP 5.2 and Perl 5.8 software versions.

The Reseller Cloud Hosting plan costs only €48.57/month ($60) when customers sign up for annual subscription. Semi-annual, quarterly and pay as you go contracts are also available. All Reseller accounts are hosted in Cloud.bg’s state-of-the-art data center - 3DC, located in Sofia, Bulgaria, European Union.

Resellers can easily assign additional amounts of SAN space and bandwidth. Each 1 GB of disc space is priced at €0.20 ($0.25). An additional 1 GB of data transfer costs only €0.03 ($0.037). Reseller account holders are charged for additional space and bandwidth on per usage/per month model. The allocated amount of resources can be upgraded or downgraded multiple times during each billing cycle. Customers are not charged for resource usage for the upcoming billing cycle when they cancel the resources prior to next due date.

Shared cPanel Cloud

Those who do not need Reseller Hosting, but still want to move to the clouds risk-free while paying a low cost annual fee can take advantage of the company’s Shared Cloud Hosting services.

This month Cloud.bg has opened a promotional campaign on its Shared Cloud Hosting. The provider adds 6 Free service months to all new accounts. It saves €92/year ($124) on average to site owners who sign up for SCloud plan on semi-annual or annual subscription periods. The sCloud plan features 100 GB premium replicated SAN storage 1,000 GB monthly bandwidth, Free Cloud Analytics and 100% network uptime. All cloud accounts use the most popular web hosting automation control panel - cPanel.

Cloud.bg ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud.bg ) is a Limited liability company incorporated in Sofia, Bulgaria, The European union in 2006. The company does business in United States through its U.S. partner company Host Color LLC.

Cloud.bg’s average round-trip delay (RTT) time for European home users ranges from 1.5 ms to 60 ms. Pinged from London it is reachable for 47 ms or less, from Ljubljana, Slovenia - 35 ms, from Paris - 71 ms or less, from Madrid - 77, from Berlin - 47 ms, from Sofia, Bulgaria - 1.5 ms. The average RTT for Israel is 97 ms.

Irish Company Acquired Oregon Based Web Host

Spiral Hosting Ltd, a European web host with headquarter in Ireland announced that it has acquired the web hosting business of the U.S. Oregon based Eideashop Inc.

“Spiral Hosting are delighted to announce the acquisition of Eideashop web hosting and we can’t wait to welcome our new clients and start assisting their web hosting needs. This acquisition allows us to invest heavily in brand new super-fast web servers housed in a newly renovated private data centre space in downtown Chicago. Chicago serves as one of North America’s largest Internet hubs with fibre optic connectivity to the East and West coasts of the United States and this yields low latency to both coasts as well as to Europe and the Asia-Pacific region”, says Peter Armstrong, director of the Irish HSP.

The Irish web hosts says that the acquisition is part of the company's “continuing efforts to offer superior web hosting solutions". The Spiral Hosting official claims that the acquisition will provide his company with an opportunity to offer a "fault-tolerant network across two continents, with impressive network speeds and around-the-clock support for our clients in Europe and the United States”.

RackSpace To Launch UK Cloud Hosting

Rackspace Hosting, one of the world's leaders in the Managed Hosting and Cloud Hosting announced plans to offer public cloud hosting services in the UK market. The new services should be launched start by the end of 2010.

"Our public cloud business grew nearly 125 percent in 2009," says Lanham Napier, President and Chief Executive Officer in a press Release published sent to It media.

"The computing as a service revolution has continued at a rapid pace, with analysts like Gartner predicting that 20% of all organizations will no longer own IT assets by 2012. We believe the opportunity in front of us is massive and we have a range of services in development that will be attractive to customers and provide new choices to the market.", adds Mr. Napier.

Rackspace says it will become one of the first of the major hosts on the UK market that operate their own cloud hosting infrastructure.

According to company's officials the web host decided to open a UK cloud because of the growing demand from UK and European customers for local access to world-class services.