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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

‘World’s fastest cloud servers‘ has been our long-standing slogan, but we are also proud to provide our users with world-class support. How do we achieve this and what effects have we seen since we began offering an always-available support service? Read...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...