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Comprehensive guide to secure and highly available cloud server backups
In today’s digital landscape, cloud server backups are critical for data protection and part of an essential disaster recovery plan. Threats to data security and business systems can be digital and physical, ranging from cyber-attacks and hardware failures to the impacts of climate change or global unrest. Data, an essential business asset, can be lost […]
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Long reads
UpCloud’s pricing beats both AWS and Azure in recent analysis
Cost optimisation is the phrase on the lips of everyone in the tech world at the moment and we can see why. For businesses who run mission-critical services on the Cloud, cost optimisation is an important exercise and one we would encourage everyone to think about. But if your business is beginning to compare different […]
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Industry analyses
Comparing managed databases in the cloud: AWS vs. DigitalOcean vs. UpCloud
With the wide-scale migration of SMEs onto cloud infrastructure, managed services have become increasingly popular. They work as a natural extension to the offerings of Infrastructure-as-a-Service companies as a suite of services on a single platform. Cloud customers can look to further benefit from the expertise of their cloud provider by adopting managed services. But […]
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Container performance on popular cloud providers
Containers are great for easy app deployment and scaling but is that all? This comparison looks into container performance on popular cloud providers.
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Benchmarking Magento Open Source edition: UpCloud vs. AWS vs. Linode vs. DigitalOcean
To help newcomers and seasoned online retailers alike to make an educated decision, we benchmarked Magento on some of the most popular cloud providers.
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Kubernetes vs Docker Swarm: Comparison of the Two Giants in Container Orchestration
In this post, we will take a look at how the two of the major players developing container orchestration, Docker and Kubernetes, compare.
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Cloud Server vs. VPS vs. Dedicated Server comparison
In this post, we have collected information about different server options to help make the distinction among a broad range of available hosting services and service providers.
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Bigger Is Not Necessary Better: AWS vs. UpCloud
One of the most common questions our customers ask us is that how we can compete with the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS) on price as they have economies of scale on their side.
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The Seemingly Straightforward Issue of Cloud Server Pricing
We want to stay competitive with regards to the pricing of our services. It is one of our main values along redundancy, performance and privacy.
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