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Templating custom cloud servers with UpCloud Packer builder
One of the best options for templating is Packer the open-source, easy to use, automation solution for custom servers.
Industry analyses
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.
Comparisons
Visit us at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2018
The mobile games industry has been growing fast much thanks to the booming smartphone market and there is clearly an audience for a conference such as the Pocket Gamer Connects.
Community and events
FI-HEL2: Second Helsinki data center now available!
New Helsinki data center FI-HEL2 Helsinki data center is here. After launching data centers in Singapore and Amsterdam, our never-ending world tour takes us back to Finland. Today, we are excited to announce that the year 2018 is starting on a high note with the opening of FI-HEL2, a brand new data centre in Helsinki! […]
Announcements
Information regarding the Intel CPU vulnerabilities (Meltdown)
Intel CPU vulnerabilities uncovered Yesterday, on January 3rd, 2018, Intel confirmed information regarding independent research findings that have uncovered security vulnerabilities in their processors. Further research has shown that this affects all modern processors, including models used by UpCloud and other cloud service providers. The CPU vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to escape the confinement […]
Announcements
Five new open source API clients available for JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, and more!
Update: The API clients have received a number of updates since the first announcement. Read more about the status update on the libraries in a new blog post. We have been busy building our libraries on GitHub to expand support for developers. Helping new ideas and services to be realized is very important to us, and we could not […]
Open Source
Introducing new, larger preconfigured monthly plans
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 been the only option for deploying larger cloud servers. While the freedom to configure the server […]
Product Updates
Join our referral program: Give a friend €25, and get €50 yourself!
UpCloud is growing fast and with so much happening it’s sometimes difficult to keep track of everything. Our success is much thanks to our dedicated users and we want to take a moment to give something back. So today, we are happy to introduce our referral program! Better with friends The referral program is our […]
Community and events
New Libcloud provider! UpCloud joins the unified cloud interface
APIs, or application programming interfaces, come in as many shapes and sizes as the services they are built for. While it is completely natural that APIs are optimized for their specific systems, the benefits of interoperabilities between similar services are obvious. This is exactly what the folks at Cloudkick set out to solve when originally beginning the development […]
Open Source