Today we wanted to help compare cloud providers in Europe by sharing our findings on price comparison in Europe between several players. We’re very keen on providing the best “bang for your buck” in the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) industry. This means that you get the best deal for your money spent. By no means is this […]
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Editors note: Since publishing, ServerBear has been shut down. The performance metrics are still fairly valid but more recent benchmarks can be found here and here. You can also compare us against other providers, such as AWS EC2, DigitalOcean and Vultr. Performance is an interesting feature in a hosting provider – if two cloud servers are […]
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Last year was a blast for UpCloud. We had tremendous customer growth, and some really exciting additions to our product portfolio as well as most competitive cloud pricing. Needless to say, this year we are developing our service and its features even further. We do not see ourselves as a “yet another IaaS platform” and […]
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UpCloud was recognised by Talouselämä, the largest Nordic weekly business magazine by circulation. Talouselämä carried out its annual study into the most promising new companies Finland has to offer. This study cuts through the hype and looks at real metrics such as revenue growth and the company’s potential going forward. Each year, the magazine highlights 20 companies […]
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Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a very popular type of customer survey to get an understanding of how many of your customers would promote your service to a friend. The exact question we asked our customers is “How likely are you to recommend UpCloud to a friend?” Our customers then had the option to answer […]
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Earlier this month, The European Court of Justice (ECJ) stated that the European Commission’s decision on the US Safe Harbor program is invalid. The notion behind this is that Safe Harbor, as a program set up between the US and EU to guarantee the safety and rightful legal protection of European Union citizens’ private information […]
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When we first announced our Singapore data centre half a year ago, we already had much planned for the region. While we have been hard at work in building our global cloud, we have also kept our feet to the ground to provide support locally for our users in Asia. We are proud to present our third […]
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‘World’s fastest cloud servers’ has been our long-standing slogan, but we are also proud to provide our users with world-class customer support. How do we achieve this and what effects have we seen since we began offering an always-available support service? Read on as we introduce you to what goes on behind the scenes. Customer support […]
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At the end of the year, it’s great to have a chance to kick back and relax a little. We wanted to take a moment to reflect on the past events and what we’ve accomplished this year. We’ve certainly been keeping busy with news, announcements, and community events around the globe. Here’s a quick look […]
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Managing a large global cloud infrastructure with high availability to provide 100% SLA requires the ability to stay on top of arising issues. Even with the advanced n+1 redundancy throughout the systems, problems need to be detected immediately and resolved quickly. For this purpose, we maintain a network of server monitoring across our data centres […]
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UpCloud was founded with the vision to build a service on a global scale. Through the years with great effort, we’ve built UpCloud truly worldwide with data centres in multiple regions. We originally branched out from Finland by expanded into Europe, but soon after set our sights on the US and later, Singapore. Today we […]
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The innovators of the future often rely on the freedoms provided by the supporting platforms to build new online services and web apps on creative ideas. Rigidity and old fashioned thinking would see us stagnating in the present with little advancement beyond small iterational steps. Therefore, we at UpCloud are always looking for ways to break […]
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The year 2019 has certainly been eventful and we hope you’ve had as a great time along the way as we have. With another amazing year quickly coming to close, we wanted to again take a moment to review what we’ve accomplished over the course of the year. In this end-of-year retrospect, we’ll have a […]
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The start of a new year, and a new decade at that, brings much for us to be excited about. Not only did we recently announce our largest investment round to date but we are already busy putting the funding to good use! Team UpCloud is going to be growing substantially in the coming months as […]
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When your hosting business grows, there comes a time when you should consider how to handle your server infrastructure more efficiently. You can choose to manage it on your own with the necessary personnel and knowledge resources. But leaving this to a cloud hosting company allows you and your employees to focus on your unique […]
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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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The year has turned, and UpCloud welcomes you to 2021, ready again to show you what the best cloud infrastructure can offer for your business. The last year has proven the capabilities of our brand, products and most importantly, the strength of our teams. We’ve been happy to see many new users coming and staying […]
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We’re delighted to announce Erik Rehn joining UpCloud as our new Head of Sales. Erik will be a great addition to our global team leading UpCloud’s sales and business development strategy towards our key user segments among small and medium-sized businesses as well as looking for new market opportunities. “Not all companies are able or […]
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For efficient website and application development, it is crucial to have stable and high performing servers providing a suitable environment to developers. Any technical issues will affect the development process negatively, slow down the flow of work and require additional resources. Recurring problems may seal the fate of many promising web businesses. On the other […]
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In the world of instant gratification, we expect every service to be always available. The success of on-demand streaming is a clear example of the trend, but the expectation of availability extends to other businesses as well. This highlights the importance of high availability, and by extent, infrastructure resilience. Luckily, when done right, cloud infrastructure […]
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As a development company, you take responsibility not only for running your websites and applications but mainly for the flawless website performance you provide to your customers. When your websites are running on high performing servers, you see the results immediately in increased user traffic and better overall user experience. Let’s look at the biggest […]
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The rapid transition of databases to the cloud, together with the challenges of database maintenance, has caused a massive demand for user-friendly managed services. To meet the demand, UpCloud launched Managed Databases – a scalable and fully automated database solution. But what was the project like, and what are the benefits of UpCloud Managed Databases? Let’s […]
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We’re extremely happy to announce that Steve Midgley has joined UpCloud as our new Board Chair. Steve brings a wealth of knowledge regarding the cloud infrastructure industry. After the €18 million investment that UpCloud secured at the beginning of 2020, his appointment is another part of our transformation towards becoming a partner of scaling and […]
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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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In 2022, we will be launching several new services and a bunch of updates to our current portfolio.
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Looking for a storage solution? Object storage could be the answer if you have a lot of static, unstructured data to tackle on the cloud. Thanks to its highly scalable and API-friendly nature, it is perfect for storing videos, photos, audio files, and other types of web content. Unlike block storage, object storage manages data […]
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UpCloud’s world-class technical support is available 24/7/365. Our single mission at UpCloud is to help our customers, which is why we provide 24/7/365 personal customer service. Our priority is to help customers solve any technical challenges fast, giving you back the time and headspace that you need, in order to focus on what you do […]
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2022 has come and gone! We want to continue our tradition of looking at the milestones and highlights of the past year. This year has been full of great achievements and accomplishments, even though the global atmosphere continues to be rough. We want to thank all our users and partners for their continuous and unbroken […]
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Cloud computing starts with people. Without passionate and qualified developers to set up, maintain and innovate within Cloud infrastructure, the sector would not have experienced rapid global growth over the last decade. Despite this, educational resources for Cloud computing remain rare or underdeveloped. Only a few institutions offer tailored courses for student developers to pick […]
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‘Uncertainty’ has been the business buzzword of the 2020s so far, and the turbulence isn’t over yet. It’s a sign of the economic times that businesses all over the world are weighing up their appetite for growth, but as our CEO Antti Vilpponen put it in a previous blog post, ‘wise management minimises risk’. It’s […]
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As one of UpCloud’s fastest-growing partners, Elastisys delivers a security-hardened Kubernetes platform that is built for EU compliance as well as fully managed on European cloud servers. We spoke to Johan Tordsson, CEO of Elastisys, to explore how the partnership works and why European businesses must ensure they run on a European-based cloud platform to […]
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UpCloud partner programme member and software company, Montel Intergalactic, delivers DevOps expertise to clients across all parts of the software lifecycle and creates future-proof cloud infrastructure for clients on UpCloud. We spoke to Lauri Kainulainen, CTO of Montel, to explore how beneficial a tight-knit partnership is for cloud computing, and why the businesses who switch […]
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