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by vilpponen 10y ago
Here's their official blog post on the announcement: https://www.hackerone.com/blog/The-best-security-initiative-...
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HackerOne raises $40M in their C-round of funding(hackerone.com)
59 points by vilpponen 10y ago|12 comments
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UpCloud secures €4M for growth(upcloud.com)
3 points by vilpponen 10y ago|0 comments
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Benchmarking cloud hosting providers with a C64 game and Ansible(upcloud.com)
2 points by vilpponen 11y ago|0 comments
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European registered UpCloud opens datacenter in Frankfurt, Germany(upcloud.com)
1 points by vilpponen 11y ago|0 comments
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Slush 2014 cloud infrastructure setup for dynamic loads(blog.upcloud.com)
2 points by vilpponen 12y ago|0 comments
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The Seemingly Straightforward Issue of Cloud Server Pricing(en.upcloud.com)
3 points by vilpponen 12y ago|0 comments
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by vilpponen 12y ago
"Given the choice, I'm sure most rational businesses would prefer the uptime over the credit." How would you propose to compensate with uptime (if I've understood correctly)? Interested to learn your thoughts on this.
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by vilpponen 12y ago
If I've understood your situation correctly - then yes, this would be an issue that is covered by our SLA. Our customer data is actually hosted on two separate storage backends for issues like failing disk drives. Our approach on this
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by vilpponen 12y ago
I would definitely buy a car if they advertised it to never break down - if the compensation on the promise would be good enough! But seriously speaking, a 99.99% SLA is not more realistic or achievable in itself than any other SLA promise.
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by vilpponen 12y ago
Thanks for the comment! A 100% SLA is actually a promise of future uptime. Nobody can of course guarantee their uptime, no matter what the SLA percentage. Thus, the company includes compensation in the agreement if the service level is not
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by vilpponen 12y ago
Thanks for the comment. I work at UpCloud so I'll chip in my 2c on the issue. Your description of "how much money providers are willing to risk" is a great way to approach this. While it doesn't probably give you the mos
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by vilpponen 12y ago
Full disclosure: I work at UpCloud, a cloud hosting provider and I think business in this industry day and night. One thing that gets overlooked in almost all comparisons is the pricing models. I actually use Glacier through Arq (brilliant
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by vilpponen 12y ago
Hey, this is the GM of UpCloud. Feel free to ask me anything or e-mail me. You can find my e-mail from our company page under contacts.
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by vilpponen 13y ago
I used to work on ArcticStartup with Karri Saarinen for several years. Grew to respect his views on simplicity, beauty and function. Congrats gents on the latest developments!
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by vilpponen 13y ago
Naturally the user is always responsible for the purchase he/she makes. However, if I (OP) make my selections and need to re-enter some information based on their request - I don't think that allows them to change my decisions fro
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by vilpponen 13y ago
OP here. They haven't refused of a refund per se, but since I am unable to reach them with the second request - it is comparable to "let's leave this be and maybe it will go away".
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It's not the $7, but the principle(antti.vilpponen.net)
84 points by vilpponen 13y ago|64 comments
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by vilpponen 13y ago
We offer completely scalable hosting at UpCloud. You get to choose your CPU, RAM, disk space and bandwidth is billed by the actual traffic. So I wouldn't call it a technical thing, but more of a strategic decision in how you want to positio
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by vilpponen 13y ago
Disclaimer: I work for UpCloud, also a cloud hosting company. This is a great question. Something I've been thinking about a lot is also the benchmarking of redundancy and the protection of one's data. It's easy to benchmark performance, bu
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Thanks for the honest feedback! We're going to be benchmarking ourselves against other providers on Serverbear and CloudHarmony, for example, in the near future.
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Thanks for the suggestions! We will be adding service areas later this to North America and Asia. For our SMS delivery, we use an international provider - could be that Google uses the same provider.
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Well said, sir. The only thing I'd add is that few people/companies want to carry the risk of paying the fixed sum for 36 months. If this is not an issue, then your own equipment is definitely a better way to go.
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Thanks for the comment. Haven't signed up for Digital Ocean my self, but applaud them for the prices they're offering.
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Thanks for letting us know - if you can't sign-in or activate your account for this reason, please contact our support to solve the issue. You can e-mail them here: support@upcloud.com.
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Thanks for the question! ZenCoder and other resource intensive cases are what our service was built for. The item in the UAP is there by our lawyers to make sure we can take steps to prevent abuse on the infrastructure by others (and thus p
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Thanks Nux! We're really excited :) Our technology is home grown, there's a lot of information on our site regarding the decisions we have made. You can find the information here: http://en.upcloud.com/features
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Even though our control panel describes the backups as server dependant, backups are in their technical sense separate storage entities. The downside is that our control panel doesn't currently allow the creation of
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Much appreciated - and if you like to reach me personally, you can e-mail me at antti.vilpponen@upcloud.com. :)
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by vilpponen 14y ago
To enable the firewall - we ask users to deposit the 10 euro minimum to the account. This releases the limitations as a free server with no pre-configured firewall rules could increase abuse on the network substantially. We hope this isn't

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