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Latest blog posts
New Feature: Two-Factor Authentication
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 limited time. This way if someone was to gain access to your username and password, […]
Product Updates
Cloud benchmark at Slush 2015
For the 2015 event, we wanted to show off some benchmarks and created a benchmarking game comparing UpCloud, AWS EC2, and DigitalOcean.
Community and events
How We Hosted Slush 2015: CoreOS and Docker on UpCloud
Like last year, UpCloud was one of the key partners of Slush and we provided the IT infrastructure for the event.
Community and events
New Features: Group Accounts and Server Tagging
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 with granular permissions. Group Accounts are made up of a single main account and subaccounts. […]
Product Updates
The invalidation of the Safe Harbor Program is meaningless for our users
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 EU to guarantee the safety and rightful legal protection of European Union citizens’ private information […]
Vision and culture
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.
Comparisons
UpCloud’s NPS Results for August 2015
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 you to recommend UpCloud to a friend?” Our customers then had the option to answer […]
Vision and culture
New data centre: Frankfurt, Germany!
We’re proud to announce that we have opened up a new data centre in Frankfurt, Germany. DE-FRA1 is our fourth data centre. Frankfurt data centre and being present on the German soil is important for us for many reasons. The German market is the largest in Europe and like the rest of the Europeans, the […]
Announcements
New Preconfigured Cloud Servers and Lower Pricing in Helsinki
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 performance, reliability and control over their cloud servers. With MaxIOPS, we have excelled in performance metrics. […]
Product Updates