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Features and Usability

Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.

Last updated on November 29 2018.

Feature Value Comment
Hourly Billing  Yes
DDOS Protection  No

No DDoS protection option available. Fine tuning of the firewall is possible.
Backups  Yes

Snapshots are priced at $0.06 per GB of storage per month.
Control Panel  Custom
SSH Keys Setup  Yes
Total Number of Datacenters  8
Number of Datacenter Continents  3
Monitoring Charts  Yes

Network and IO only.
Admin REST API  Yes

URL: https://www.upcloud.com/api/
Upgrade VPS from admin console  Yes
Mobile Friendly UI  No
Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit cards, Paypal
Hidden CPU Model  No
Affiliate Program  No
Firewall  No

UpCloud offers a firewall feature but it's charged extra. It allows allowing or blocking IP addresses or ranges of IP addresses (not port numbers as far as I can tell).

In VPSBenchmark's opinion

Feature Value Comment
UI Friendliness 

Clear admin UI, all the features you would expect are present.
Quality of Service 

During the free trial period, the firewall settings are tight and block outbound ssh. Keep that in mind if you can't connect your UpCloud VM to external servers. Those restrictions are lifted after the first payment.
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UpCloud Extra Services

In addition to features included in the VPS plan, UpCloud also offers the following services (possibly for a fee):

Backups   Block Storage   Object Storage Load Balancer Floating Ips  
Teams   Datastores Serverless Ddos Protection

Admin UI Screenshots


Cloud Storage Prices

For a comparison of storage features and prices from all providers, please check the Cloud Storage page.

Storage Type Price / GB / month Restriction Description
Block $0.220 UpCloud storage is MaxIOPS, it offers the performance of multiple enterprise-grade SSDs for the price of one.
https://www.upcloud.com/pricing/
Backups $0.060 UpCloud offers a scheduling function on top of its backups.
Users can also create snapshots manually (same price).
https://www.upcloud.com/pricing/



This provider offers the following promotion:

Sign up with the following link and receive a $50 credit into your UpCloud account.

Promo link:
https://upcloud.com/signup/?promo=S2P58R

Value: $50

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UpCloud Plans


Plan Specifications

Url https://www.upcloud.com/pricing/
Cost Per Month $20.0
Hourly Billing true
Memory Gb 4.0
Disk Gb 80
Data Transfer Gb 4000
Num Cores 2
Virtualization KVM
Burstable No

Plan Grades

Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests.

Grade A is best, grade F is worst.

Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.

How are grades calculated?

Web Performance Raw CPU Power Performance Stability Disk IO Performance Network Performance
A C A B C

Performance Test Results

We conducted 5 different types of tests for UpCloud - 4GB 2 cores. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.

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Test Results

This plan was tested 3 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the 4GB 2 cores plan and the web response times for every one of those.

Start of Trial Web Results Sysbench Results Avg web response time P99 web response time
Dec 07 2018 Web Sysbench 51ms 104ms
May 23 2018 Web Sysbench 56ms 260ms
Sep 17 2017 Web Sysbench 48ms 240ms

Plan Specifications

Url https://www.upcloud.com/pricing/
Cost Per Month $5.0
Hourly Billing true
Memory Gb 1.0
Disk Gb 25
Data Transfer Gb 1000
Num Cores 1
Virtualization KVM
Burstable No

Plan Grades

Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests.

Grade A is best, grade F is worst.

Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.

How are grades calculated?

Web Performance Raw CPU Power Performance Stability Disk IO Performance Network Performance
A E A C D

Performance Test Results

We conducted 5 different types of tests for UpCloud - 1GB 1core. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.

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Test Results

This plan was tested 2 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the 1GB 1core plan and the web response times for every one of those.

Start of Trial Web Results Sysbench Results Avg web response time P99 web response time
Sep 02 2018 Web Sysbench 55ms 153ms
Apr 08 2018 Web Sysbench 58ms 240ms

Plan Specifications

Url https://www.upcloud.com/pricing/
Cost Per Month $10.0
Hourly Billing true
Memory Gb 2.0
Disk Gb 50
Data Transfer Gb 2000
Num Cores 1
Virtualization KVM
Burstable No

Plan Grades

Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests.

Grade A is best, grade F is worst.

Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.

How are grades calculated?

Web Performance Raw CPU Power Performance Stability Disk IO Performance Network Performance
B E C A D

Performance Test Results

We conducted 5 different types of tests for UpCloud - 2GB 1core. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.

Web Test Sysbench Test Remote Timing Test Endurance Test Network Transfers
Review Review Review Review Review
Compare Compare Compare Compare Compare

Test Results

This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the 2GB 1core plan and the web response times for every one of those.

Start of Trial Web Results Sysbench Results Avg web response time P99 web response time
Jun 22 2018 Web Sysbench 52ms 250ms

Plan Specifications

Url https://www.upcloud.com/pricing/
Cost Per Month $40.0
Hourly Billing true
Memory Gb 8.0
Disk Gb 160
Data Transfer Gb 5000
Num Cores 4
Virtualization KVM
Burstable No

Plan Grades

Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests.

Grade A is best, grade F is worst.

Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.

How are grades calculated?

Web Performance Raw CPU Power Performance Stability Disk IO Performance Network Performance
A A A B D

Performance Test Results

We conducted 5 different types of tests for UpCloud - 8GB 4 cores. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.

Web Test Sysbench Test Remote Timing Test Endurance Test Network Transfers
Review Review Review Review Review
Compare Compare Compare Compare Compare

Test Results

This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the 8GB 4 cores plan and the web response times for every one of those.

Start of Trial Web Results Sysbench Results Avg web response time P99 web response time
Oct 31 2018 Web Sysbench 53ms 110ms

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