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[mirovit]

The Cloud.bg's cloud hosting service is a Shared Cloud Hosting, and users take advantage of the resources of an HA cluster, they do not get a virtual instances. This might be considered as weakness, because the cloud runs standard software versions across the system and all servers which a part of the cluster. At the same time this is great news for webmasters like me who can not afford to pay a lot on monthly basis. I'm taking advantage of high availability and scalability paying less than $30 per month.

The best about Cloud.bg is that it brings high availability to cPanel/WHM hosting. The customers host their website on top of a load-balanced cluster. I use the cPanel interface only and do not need to deal with virtual instances, software licensing, etc. Unlike many other clouds Cloud.bg replicates the storage so there is a mirror copy of my websites. It is not like on EC2 where if you something fails on the servers you might loose the information on account. Of course you still need to do off-site back up!

I'm based in Europe and the Cloud.bg's service works great for me as far as it is an European Cloud hosting. However they seem to be well connected because some friends told me my websites open fast in the U.S. as well.

[consciousmedia]

Yeah, I agree pretty much. Cloud.bg works well with the cPanel.

[sam9]

BTW - On EC2 if you configure it properly, you will not lose data even if your instance fails.
Cheers!

[CloudWeb]

Thanks for the review of them. Be sure to click the report button on the top right of your review and inform the moderator's of your website URL for verification.

[TheChemist]

Like said above. Thank you for the review. Very rarely do you get a positive review. Usually it is just a client coming to crap on the company. Thank you for the review and please do keep us updated!

Regards,
Matt

[ZKuJoe]

Do they offer VMs or just shared hosting accounts?

[dazmanultra]

Very interesting. Do they have load balancing? What services under cPanel are clustered?

[eming]

you can basically put cPanel on any cloud host out there - AND get the full failover if configured correctly (and if you choose the right cloud host)


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[CloudWeb]

Originally Posted by eming

you can basically put cPanel on any cloud host out there - AND get the full failover if configured correctly (and if you choose the right cloud host)


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Yes you *can* put cPanel on most cloud hosts, and possibly get some failover, if configured properly, and the cloud host uses the right backend.. but that's all you'll get. You won't get true cloud vertical scaling unless it is modified. cPanel itself is not built to do this out of the box.

[eming]

Originally Posted by cloudweb

Yes you *can* put cPanel on most cloud hosts, and possibly get some failover, if configured properly, and the cloud host uses the right backend.. but that's all you'll get. You won't get true cloud vertical scaling unless it is modified. cPanel itself is not built to do this out of the box.

sure you can - cpanel doesn't care if you add more resources to the same server. You can even do it without rebooting in some cases (depending on kernel)

[CloudWeb]

Originally Posted by eming

sure you can - cpanel doesn't care if you add more resources to the same server. You can even do it without rebooting in some cases (depending on kernel)

True, if it's on the same server

[eming]

Originally Posted by cloudweb

True, if it's on the same server

with server I mean VM not hypervisor or physical server.

[dazmanultra]

Oh, so this is another one of those install cPanel on a high availability VM and call it "cloud hosting" services? If so, you're protected somewhat against certain types of hypervisor hardware failures (which you would be anyway on any decent shared host using RAID and redundant PSUs)... but it doesn't really add much else.