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Niloufar Viljanen and Annukka Piirala join UpCloud as Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer respectively

Niloufar Viljanen and Annukka Piirala have joined the UpCloud leadership team as chief marketing officer (CMO) and chief financial officer (CFO) reporting to our CEO Antti Vilpponen. Annukka brings a wealth of experience in consulting and auditing and has previous experience from PwC. She holds an accreditation as a Finnish Authorised Public Accountant. Annukka joined […]

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Introducing Managed Load Balancer to simplify the complexities of resilience

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 services, we are excited to unveil a new carefree way to build resilience. Today we […]

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UpCloud condemns Russia’s aggression and invasion of Ukraine

We at UpCloud have been shocked and appalled by the actions of Russia towards Ukraine. The illegal aggression Russia has taken towards a sovereign state, Ukraine, is a clear violation of international law and treaties. We stand in full support of Ukraine and condemn Russia’s actions in the strongest way possible. Until now, we have […]

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The benefits of Object Storage for WordPress companies

Looking for a storage solution? Object storage could be the answer if you have a lot of static, unstructured data to tackle on the cloud. Thanks to its highly scalable and API-friendly nature, it is perfect for storing videos, photos, audio files, and other types of web content. Unlike block storage, object storage manages data […]

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UpCloud’s development roadmap: Great plans for 2022

In 2022, we will be launching several new services and a bunch of updates to our current portfolio.

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Our year in retrospect: UpCloud’s 2021 highlights

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 and therefore make things a bit simpler for our users, who, just like us, are […]

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We are dropping Sydney Cloud Server pricing by 33% to support even stronger growth in Australia

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 cloud. As a result, we are lowering the regional prices. Starting today, we offer the same […]

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How to prepare your eCommerce site for seasonal traffic spikes

Traffic spikes are coming – is your eCommerce site ready? Follow these 6 steps to prepare for seasonal sales with eCommerce optimisation in the cloud.

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Steve Midgley joins UpCloud as our new Chair of the Board

We’re extremely happy to announce that Steve Midgley has joined UpCloud as our new Board Chair. Steve brings a wealth of knowledge regarding the cloud infrastructure industry. After the €18 million investment that UpCloud secured at the beginning of 2020, his appointment is another part of our transformation towards becoming a partner of scaling and […]

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