Frequently asked questions

Curious about our services? Here you can find answers to the most frequently asked questions about UpCloud.

And if you can’t find what you are looking for, don’t hesitate to contact us!

Free trial

We want to enable our customers to experience our cloud infrastructure first hand. To this end, we offer a free 3-day trial with no strings attached. Additionally, you also always have a 30-day money-back guarantee on your first payment!

Account & Billing

Signing up at UpCloud allows anyone to create an account and start deploying cloud services. Managing your account and billing is do via your UpCloud Control Panel.

Cloud Servers

Cloud Servers offer on-demand availability of computer system resources, including data storage and computational capacity without the need to directly manage the server hardware.

Managed Databases

Managed Database is a carefree database-as-a-service for running well-known open-source databases in the cloud. Built on high availability, Managed Databases provide a safe way to store application data.

Storage

Our cloud infrastructure is designed around redundancy and high availability, and a core part of it is the separation of computation and storage. Cloud Servers use our in-house developed MaxIOPS Block Storage by default.

Networking

On UpCloud, you will be able to use 3 different types of networks, public internet access over IPv4 and IPv6, user customisable SDN private networks, and the preconfigured private Utility network.

API

The programmable UpCloud API encompasses all of the functionality of our control panel and then some. If you want to build automation or services that’ll utilise our cloud infrastructure, our API or one of the many API clients is the way to go.

GDPR

GDPR is an important regulation in the EU to ensure data privacy. UpCloud is fully GDPR compliant, and furthermore, we had already followed similar principles long before GDPR was introduced.

Support

UpCloud provides customer support to assist our users with all of their cloud infrastructure needs. Users who wish to learn more about our products or need assistance with any related services can contact our support for help.

Live chat

Our live chat is available for our customers 24/7, all year round. We usually respond in less than 2 minutes!

Email

Support: [email protected]
Sales: [email protected]
General: [email protected]

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