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...

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...

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...

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 in upkeep. To solve this headache once and for...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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%....

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...

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...

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...