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Mitigating DDoS: Demystifying Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks
In this article, we are looking into what is DDoS, how it affects services, and what can be done to mitigate it.
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Celebrating the second anniversary of UpCloud Singapore!
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 […]
Vision and culture
Introducing Private Cloud: Going beyond traditional cloud infrastructure
Public cloud has grown in popularity immensely and while suitable for many types of needs, sometimes you just need that little bit of extra, of everything. If you are looking for more customizability, heightened security, better performance, and perfect availability, search no further. For anyone wishing to ascend beyond the public cloud, we are now offering a […]
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Domain Name System and how to manage DNS records
Domain names are great for setting up recognisable and trustworthy services. In this post, we'll outline some of the important information you need for configuring your domain.
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Terraform best practices for beginners
Getting started with Terraform takes some effort to read the documentation. To give you a head start, we've compiled a quick list of Terraform best practices.
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ZombieLoad, RIDL, and Fallout – Microarchitectural Data Sampling vulnerabilities
Intel published this Tuesday on 14th of May a new class of vulnerabilities which are related to the already year-old speculative execution attacks. The newly-disclosed Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) hardware vulnerabilities were found independently by multiple teams and are affecting most modern Intel CPUs. Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities Currently reported vulnerabilities called ZombieLoad, RIDL, […]
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Distributed monitoring for global cloud infrastructure
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 […]
Vision and culture
Databases in the cloud: Developing on the database-as-a-service model
In this fourth edition in our series of hosting databases in the cloud, we'll be diving into the details of a database-as-a-service model.
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Databases in the cloud: Building security and integrity with DBMS
In our third post for the series about databases in the cloud. We are looking into database management systems, their benefits and performance.
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