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UpCloud was founded in 2013.
It is headquartered in Finland.
It offers VPS hosting products.
UpCloud plans specs and prices | Plans |
UpCloud instance types | Instance Types |
How fast are UpCloud servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
List of UpCloud trials | Trials |
Review CPU models found in UpCloud trials | CPUs |
Performance variations of UpCloud VPS over the long term | Consistency |
List of UpCloud yabs.sh results | Yabs |
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
Feature | Value | Comment |
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Hourly Billing | Yes | |
DDOS Protection | No |
No DDoS protection option available. Fine tuning of the firewall is possible. |
Backups | Yes |
Backups can be automated with the "Simple Backup" feature. 1 daily backup is free but weekly or monthly backups are priced between 20% and 60% of the instance cost: https://upcloud.com/products/backup/. |
Control Panel | Custom | |
SSH Keys Setup | Yes | |
Total Number of Datacenters | 12 | |
Number of Datacenter Continents | 4 | |
Monitoring Charts | Yes |
Network and IO only. |
Admin REST API | Yes | |
Upgrade VPS from admin console | Yes | |
Mobile Friendly UI | No | |
Reverse DNS | Yes | |
Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit cards, Paypal | |
Hidden CPU Model | No | |
Affiliate Program | Yes | |
IPv6 support | Yes | |
Firewall | Yes | |
Shelving | No |
In addition to features included in VPS plans, UpCloud also offers the following services (possibly for a fee):
Backups | Block storage | Object storage | Load balancer |
Floating IP addresses | Team Management | Managed databases | Serverless |
DDoS protection | Kubernetes | GPU instances | Private network |
For each UpCloud VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server from the moment it was ordered to the moment it accepted SSH connections.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
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50s | 40s | 65s | 12 |
For a comparison of storage features and prices from all providers, please check the Cloud Storage Prices page.
Storage Type | Price / GB / month | Description | Restriction |
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Backups | 0.050€ |
UpCloud Simple Backups are automatically scheduled with 3 options: 7 daily backups, 4 weekly backups, 12 monthly backups. Prices respectively 20%, 40% or 60% of VPS price in addition to $0.05/GB/month.
https://upcloud.com/products/backup/ |
1 daily backup is free. |
Block | 0.056€ |
HDD storage.
https://upcloud.com/products/maxiops-storage/ |
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Block | 0.220€ |
MaxIOPS storage.
https://upcloud.com/products/maxiops-storage/ |
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Object | 0.020€ |
Transfer cost included up to twice the size of paid storage.
https://upcloud.com/products/object-storage/ |
250GB minimum. |
These are the network bandwidth prices charged by UpCloud for outbound transfers from VPS to the internet.
For a comparison of bandwidth prices from all providers, go to the Network Bandwitdh Prices page.
Description | Price / GB |
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Pricing model: Allowance Then Charged
(the provider gives a free bandwidth allowance with each server. Bandwidth above the free allowance is charged by the provider.)
Free allowance: 4 TB / month
(for a 2 core 4GB instance or closest available)
Transfer pool: yes
https://upcloud.com/pricing
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0.010€/GB |
This provider offers the following promotion:
Sign up with the following link and receive a $25 credit into your UpCloud account.
Value: $25
Note: All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month without any further commitment and before promotions unless noted otherwise. The IPv4 charge is added to the VPS monthly price in case the provider doesn't include it by default.
Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Price |
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Family: Cloud Servers Instance Type: High CPU |
High CPU plans offer sets of resources ideal for higher computational needs while being price competitive. |
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High CPU 12GB | 8 | 12.0GB | 100GB | 130.00€ ($141.70) / month |
Family: Cloud Servers Instance Type: High Memory |
High Memory plans provide an increased amount of system memory for memory intensive workloads. |
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High Memory 8GB | 2 | 8.0GB | 100GB | 40.00€ ($43.60) / month |
Family: Cloud Servers Instance Type: General Purpose |
Cloud Servers offer on-demand available computer system resources without needing to directly manage the server hardware. General Purpose plans come with a balanced and cost-efficient set of resources suitable for most use cases. |
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1GB 1core | 1 | 1.0GB | 25GB | 7.00€ ($7.63) / month |
2GB 1core | 1 | 2.0GB | 50GB | 13.00€ ($14.17) / month |
4GB 2 cores | 2 | 4.0GB | 80GB | 26.00€ ($28.34) / month |
8GB 4 cores | 4 | 8.0GB | 160GB | 52.00€ ($56.68) / month |
16GB 6 cores | 6 | 16.0GB | 320GB | 96.00€ ($104.64) / month |