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We're giving out free 1CPU, 2GB, 10GB SSD -servers, celebrating our launch.

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Re: We're giving out free 1CPU, 2GB, 10GB SSD -servers, celebrating our launch.

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Post by vilpponen »

soult wrote: post #37

From UpCloud's AUP: Intentional or careless use of the Services in excess of a typically expected server load, such as continuosly high CPU or I/O use rate. Does this mean that uses cases like ZenCoder (video encoding "in the cloud") would not be allowed on UpCloud, since they would max out the CPU?

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 possibly hurting others' performance).

So please run ZenCoder on our platform and do let us know how it compares to others :)

Re: We're giving out free 1CPU, 2GB, 10GB SSD -servers, celebrating our launch.

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Post by kalleboo »

Tichy wrote: post #10

Flagged as blatant advertising. 100€ is nothing, and I have to make the investment to work out how to use your cloud infrastructure. That investment (of time) is worth much more than 100€, so once the 100€ run out I will feel that I have invested so much already, it will be cheaper to keep using your service. I'm sorry, but that is not a give-away, it's just a bait. Btw. Google App Engine is currently "giving away" 1…

I don't see anything in the HN guidelines against advertising. Why flag instead of ignore?

Re: We're giving out free 1CPU, 2GB, 10GB SSD -servers, celebrating our launch.

#43

Post by vilpponen »

przemoc wrote: post #35

I had a problem with registration. My last name was treated as invalid value, so I went with ASCII version (without diactric). Same letter seems to work fine in first name, but to be consistent I used there only ASCII letters too in the end.

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.

Re: We're giving out free 1CPU, 2GB, 10GB SSD -servers, celebrating our launch.

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Post by jschuur »

vilpponen wrote: post #15
rustc wrote: post #6

How does this compare to DigitalOcean, which is about a quarter of the price of this? ($19+ vs $5), for similar specs?

I can only comment on our offering, but naturally DigitalOcean is putting up great competition in terms of pricing. A few things to consider when hosting with us: 1) We only use enterprise grade hardware currently from Dell and all network related devices are from Cisco (so high performance is guaranteed through out the device lifecycle in SSDs for example). 2) We take redundancy very seriously. All of our stack is r…

Kudos for having iOS/Android apps available already. It may be just a small touch, but as a new Digital Ocean subscriber, I was a little irked to find out they only had an Android app done via a third party and no iOS or mobile web view equivalent.

Re: We're giving out free 1CPU, 2GB, 10GB SSD -servers, celebrating our launch.

#45

Post by rplnt »

Tichy wrote: post #10

Flagged as blatant advertising. 100€ is nothing, and I have to make the investment to work out how to use your cloud infrastructure. That investment (of time) is worth much more than 100€, so once the 100€ run out I will feel that I have invested so much already, it will be cheaper to keep using your service. I'm sorry, but that is not a give-away, it's just a bait. Btw. Google App Engine is currently "giving away" 1…

> That investment (of time) is worth much more than 100€

For future savings, you might consider this investement: http://deltacloud.apache.org/drivers.html#drivers

Disclosure: I've never used it, just think it's interesting.

Re: We're giving out free 1CPU, 2GB, 10GB SSD -servers, celebrating our launch.

#46

Post by alternize »

just checked out the service, and i really like the administration pages. i could see this as a viable alternative to other vps services, but would love to see some more server location choices.

what i was wondering tho: the activation sms originated from the same number as google's calendar reminders, what's up with that?

Re: We're giving out free 1CPU, 2GB, 10GB SSD -servers, celebrating our launch.

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Post by alternize »

vilpponen wrote: post #30
unwind wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The front page uses both "MB" and "Mt" when talking about the server's memory size. "Mt" is really weirding me out, no idea what it means.

Thanks for the comment - we just fixed this. We're a Finnish company and for some reason this page refused to read the proper language file for those two parts (the text was Finnish). Mt = megatavu = megabyte in English. Finnish 101 :)

here's another localisation error:

servers > server > setting:

"Deployed: 13.03.2013 klo 11:11"

Re: We're giving out free 1CPU, 2GB, 10GB SSD -servers, celebrating our launch.

#48

Post by porsupah »

A minor note on the form's validation: if you enter a phone number with a space separating the code and number, it'll be rejected, but with no indication as to what failed, or why. (Not that UpCloud is alone in being flummoxed by spaces in numbers - witness the many, many credit card entry fields around the web that refuse to strip spaces out)

Also, on activating the account, if you don't have JS and cookies enabled, the page is simply reloaded, failing silently. That done, however, it works fine, even with, in my case, a relatively unknown browser. ^_^

Re: We're giving out free 1CPU, 2GB, 10GB SSD -servers, celebrating our launch.

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Post by lucb1e »

vilpponen wrote: post #30
unwind wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The front page uses both "MB" and "Mt" when talking about the server's memory size. "Mt" is really weirding me out, no idea what it means.

Thanks for the comment - we just fixed this. We're a Finnish company and for some reason this page refused to read the proper language file for those two parts (the text was Finnish). Mt = megatavu = megabyte in English. Finnish 101 :)

Like the French megaoctets. Just use megabytes everyone!!1 :P

(I'm not French btw)

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