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Data Center Countries
The selected providers have data centers in the following countries.
| Google Compute Engine | UpCloud |
|---|---|
| Australia Belgium Brazil Canada Chile China Finland France Germany Hong Kong India India Indonesia Israel Italy Japan Malaysia Netherlands Poland Qatar Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore South Africa South Korea Switzerland Taiwan Taiwan United Kingdom United States | Australia Finland Germany Netherlands Poland Singapore Spain Sweden United Kingdom United States |
Features and Usability
Features not included in the VPS price in plans tested at vpsbenchmarks.com will be marked as missing.
| Google Compute Engine | UpCloud | |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly Billing | Yes | Yes |
| DDOS Protection | Yes | No |
| Backups | No | Yes |
| Control Panel | Builtin | Custom |
| SSH Keys Setup | Yes | Yes |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 42 | 13 |
| Number of Data Center Continents | 5 | 4 |
| Monitoring Charts | Yes | Yes |
| Admin REST API | Yes | Yes |
| Upgrade VPS from admin console | No | Yes |
| Mobile Friendly UI | No | No |
| Reverse DNS | No | Yes |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit Cards | Credit cards, Paypal |
| Hidden CPU Model | Yes | No |
| Affiliate Program | No | Yes |
| IPv6 support | Yes | Yes |
| Firewall | No | Yes |
| Shelving | Yes | No |
Extra Services
Those services are offered by providers independently of their cloud servers.
| Google Compute Engine | UpCloud | |
|---|---|---|
| Backups - Instance backups or snapshots | ||
| Block storage - Allocate storage volumes independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice | ||
| Object storage - Data storage for objects, individual files with API access | ||
| Load balancer - Distribute traffic across set of instances | ||
| Floating IP addresses - Allocate IP addresses independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice | ||
| Team Management - Management of users who are authorized to handle resources in your account | ||
| Managed databases - Managed databases such as MySQL, Postgresql, Aurora, ... | ||
| Serverless - Deploy code as functions and let the provider manage where the code runs | ||
| DDoS protection - Distributed Denial of Service protection | ||
| Kubernetes - Management of Docker containers | ||
| GPU instances - GPU instances to run your AI workload | ||
| Private network - Use private IP addresses to communicate between your own instances at this provider |
Stengths & Weaknesses
| Strengths | Weaknesses | |
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Performance Comparisons
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