Private networking and Floating IPs are essentials in building modern and scalable web applications. A private network lets your cloud servers communicate through a secure channel that is not exposed to the public network (i.e. the Internet) and doesn’t count towards your bandwidth costs. When comparing most cloud providers, our private network spans all our data centres and regions and is not isolated to a single datacenter.

When choosing Azure, you are forced to pick from a confusing number of resource plans they have pieced together for you. Once you’ve selected the right plan you can’t be as flexible as you want with it. If you ever hit a bottleneck with resources provided by Azure your only option is to try to find a new plan somewhat matching your requirements. By doing so you end up with a considerably more expensive system and wasting money on resources you don’t need.

With UpCloud, you get full flexibility with resources you get! All cloud servers can be deployed using cost-effective preconfigured plans or with fully customizable resources, completely according to your budget and needs. You can choose the amount of CPUs, RAM and storage that your service or application needs. Also, you are able to switch between preconfigured plans and custom configuration at any time! With such flexibility, you are in complete control of your performance and costs.