Our service was launched exactly five months ago today. Although the months have flashed by at the speed of light, we have already had time to see our service filling a vacuum in the Finnish IaaS supply and how enthusiastically it has been received in different circles. Nowadays, our clients include private individuals, as well […]
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We have adopted a new service to enable better opportunities to add funds to your account. We have integrated Braintree Payments into our service to enable monthly recurring payments to your account to further enable you to optimise your credit usage. Braintree Payments has reached the highest possible safety certification PCI DSS Level 1. More […]
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SSD based storage and other improvements We’ve been hard at work again this month to come out with updates to improve the overall service quality. Our update includes numerous smaller fixes and improvements under the hood in addition to the more visible updates regarding the storage resources and server configuration possibilities. From now on, you […]
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We’re constantly working to find ways to serve our customers better – be it through new features or improving our current portfolio. We’re happy to announce that as of today, we have lowered the price of outgoing traffic by 50%. The new prices are available on our pricing page. This means that outgoing traffic from […]
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We are delighted to let you know that we are lowering infrastructure costs in our London data centre, across the board. We are committed to offering our customers the best technology for the best price and these price changes are a big part of that. The new prices are valid as of today and are […]
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Increasing maximum memory and CPU limits We are increasing the maximum memory and CPU limits you can configure on UpCloud. Now you can configure servers up to (and including) 10 CPUs and 64GB of memory. You can configure your servers with the new limits through our API and also the Control Panel, as well as […]
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As you may have already noticed, we’re a very technically oriented bunch here at UpCloud. Our developers and infrastructure teams have worked intensely yet again and we are very proud to announce full support for IPv6 on UpCloud. This functionality is now available for all servers in all our service areas. IPv6 is a protocol […]
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Before the month is over, we want to highlight some of the recent cloud service upgrades we have published. Many of these upgrades and features are a direct result of the feedback you have given us. Please keep the feedback coming in the future as well and thank you for helping us build a better […]
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Cloud pricing at UpCloud As a company based in the Eurozone, we have reported our cloud pricing primarily in euros. This has also been the underlying base currency of our business as customers pay for services on UpCloud. However, due to our continued focus on international growth and push for better comparability, we have made […]
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We’ve been hard at work this spring and all the smaller and bigger changes we have announced have been a run-up to the announcements we’re proud to make today. With UpCloud, we set out to give developers and organisations better performance, reliability and control over their cloud servers. With MaxIOPS, we have excelled in performance metrics. […]
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We are excited to announce that we have launched a couple of new features this morning, both highly anticipated based on the recent feedback. Firstly, Group Accounts allow customers to add additional users to their accounts in a secure manner with granular permissions. Group Accounts are made up of a single main account and subaccounts. […]
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We are happy to announce that UpCloud customers can now enable two-factor authentication on their accounts. Two-factor authentication adds an additional layer of security through random passwords that are generated specifically for your username and are only valid for a limited time. This way if someone was to gain access to your username and password, […]
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We are excited to announce the release of several highly requested features that will provide you with additional tools to automate and manage your cloud infrastructure with even greater ease and scale. Initialization scripts When deploying a new cloud server, your first 5 minutes usually consists of the same set of initial tasks. Now those […]
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In May 2015 we made a bit of an unusual move for a European company but a welcome change for our customers: we changed our base currency from Euro to US Dollar. We made this move as the US Dollar can be regarded as the de-facto currency when it comes to pricing of cloud infrastructure […]
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The preconfigured monthly plans we first introduced back in 2015 have become very popular amongst our users for their price-to-performance ratio. In addition, our freely scalable resources are one of our best and most popular features but have so far been the only option for deploying larger cloud servers. While the freedom to configure the server […]
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You asked for it, and we listened! Today, we are launching a highly requested $5/monthly pricing plans for cloud servers. This is an especially attractive offer for our new users, who can experience our industry-leading performance with their own eyes for the cost of a cup of coffee! It also allows current users to run […]
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Data transfer is an integral part of cloud computing and all our Simple plans include a generous amount of transfer capacity within the monthly pricing. Nevertheless, the needs of fast-growing businesses can quickly exhaust the monthly transfer quota of their front-end cloud server while other servers on their account never come even close. We recognise […]
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Asia is among the most dynamically developing regions in the world, which means access to Asian markets is crucial for global companies. With the recent Covid-19 outbreak, we are witnessing the massive shift to digitalisation. Even many international companies that had previously relied on physical presence in the region withdrew and moved their local offices […]
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For most of us, 2020 was an unexpectedly challenging year. The ongoing global pandemic has significantly changed lives around the world. Luckily, we at UpCloud have been able to continue operations to provide you, our users, with many new features and services throughout the year and by extent tried to make your year a little […]
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Terraform is a popular open-source software tool created by HashiCorp. Terraform allows users to define infrastructure-as-code using a simple, human-readable language. It enables you to take full control of your cloud infrastructure using declarative configuration files to manage services and resources. The UpCloud Terraform provider module integrates our infrastructure with Terraform and has been available […]
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The user-friendly UpCloud Control Panel and the robust UpCloud API both serve to provide our users full control of their cloud resources. However, each suite very different needs. We want to be able to offer something for everyone and to this effort, we are excited to launch UpCloud Command-Line Interface! UpCloud CLI UpCloud Command-Line Interface, […]
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Managed databases offer a carefree approach to installation and maintenance while providing advantages often only available in high-complexity self-hosted databases. The increase in system complexity then adds costs by requiring continuous attention to upkeep. To solve this headache once and for all, we are excited to be introducing UpCloud Managed Databases! Deploy your database on the […]
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In March 2021, we announced the opening of AU-SYD1 in Sydney, our first data centre in Australia. After a successful launch, we want to make our Sydney data centre even more competitive and introduce more users to the world’s fastest cloud. As a result, we are lowering the regional prices. Starting today, we offer the same […]
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The past year kept us busy developing new features, forming exciting partnerships, and welcoming new talent to our continuously growing team at UpCloud. Luckily, even in the middle of the globally rocky circumstances, we were able to launch multiple services and therefore make things a bit simpler for our users, who, just like us, are […]
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Load balancing is a true and tested method of building resilience and improving system throughput. However, it might not be quite that easy to implement or maintain for everyone, until now. To help anyone create a state-of-art frontend for their cloud services, we are excited to unveil a new carefree way to build resilience. Today we […]
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Streamlining currency changes for customers Starting from January 1st 2023, we are changing our pricing currency from US Dollars (USD) to Euros (EUR) to bring our customers more benefits and reduce uncertainty. The majority of our current customers use Euro as a payment currency. We decided to make this change to bring three vital advantages […]
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Password strength has always been a concern for all internet-connected systems. Doubly so for any cloud servers with open service ports. If you’ve ever had a look at your Syslogs after deployment, many servers are immediately subjected to brute-force attacks straight from creation. For the longest time, the best advice has been to disable password […]
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Long response times or slow login experience in your webshop or application can drastically reduce sales. And as many would agree from personal experience, If the content is not delivered in a timely manner users will go elsewhere. To help improve your application performance in one go, we’ve been developing little something. Today I am […]
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In the past year, we have been working on many products and services like Managed Load Balancer, Hot Resizing, and Managed Redis Databases, that help customers to be more productive in their core business. Simplifying cloud infrastructure setup and management has been a large part of our development plans, not the least of which, Managed […]
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The use of Kubernetes is growing year after year, and the system is now the go-to tool for container orchestration. We’re proud to launch UpCloud Managed Kubernetes, to help businesses enjoy all the benefits of using Kubernetes without any of the headaches of maintaining it. Every year, more and more businesses are adopting Kubernetes – […]
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