#1 most frequent
Finland
25.0%3,786 installations of 15,163
What is UpCloud?
UpCloud is a global cloud hosting company offering cloud servers on an hourly billed infrastructure-as-a-service. Their IaaS services include MaxIOPS block storage, their Simple backup service, SDN services, and resource isolation.
Categories & Use Cases
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Top Performing Features
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
The service uptime as a percentage defined in the SLA
Category average: 8.6
Operating system support
Range of operating systems available as pre-configured images
Category average: 7.9
Dynamic scaling
Ease of scaling up or down in response to customer needs
Category average: 8.1
Areas for Improvement
Elastic load balancing
Automatic balancing and distribution of resources across multiple virtual computers
Category average: 8.5
Pre-defined machine images
Range of different server configurations available
Category average: 7.8
Pre-configured templates
Pre-defined templates for virtual machines
Category average: 7.5
Who Buys & Uses UpCloud
#2 most frequent
United States of America
21.7%3,287 installations of 15,163
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
8.8%1,338 installations of 15,163
Simple and cost effective
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We used UpCloud to serve some of our internal infrastructure services. We also used it to host test environments and production environments for a multitude of customer projects. I think the pricing as well was one of the biggest draws for us, along with reliability and performance.
Pros
- Pricing
- Ease of use - super easy to manage existing servers and deploy new ones
- Great customer service
Cons
- The billing reports are quite hard to read, could be simplified
- A control panel function would be useful
- The re-billing process could be better, not so cut throat if you miss a payment!
Most Important Features
- The uptime
- Great customer service
- Well documented API
- MaxIOPS for storage is fantastic
Return on Investment
- The low cost means you don't really need to worry about pricing
- To us as a business it was not as useful as DigitalOcean
Alternatives Considered
DigitalOcean
Other Software Used
DigitalOcean, Linode
