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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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We currently use servers with SSD and I am always interested to look at new offers. I found your site very nice in term of design but the message is really not clear. "Excellent CPU- and IO-Performance 24/7" does not mean anything, I want to have more concrete information with for example an overview of I/O performances. The 100% SLA agreement does not mean anything for me. I would prefer to have an overview of the t…

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.

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

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I've just tried this out - you can sign up without CC details. I don't think it's fair to characterise this as just bait - there has to be a reward for both parties in an offer like this. I think this is of interest to the HN crowd, and as long as they don't keep spamming HN with it, it's useful info. So not flagged. The service looks great - control panel looks good and covers much of the same stuff as linode, setup…

Commas on prices are a peculiar thing in many parts of the word but if you've been to Europe you get it. Although given all the details for contact are in the UK I was bit puzzled at that as well.

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

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Interesting. Good luck with the service! Where can we read more about it? What technology are you using? Are you using any of the popular cloud platforms (openstack, cloudstack, opennebula etc)?

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

I (and prolly many others) would be very interested to hear about any open source technologies you are using, if at liberty to discuss. The features page is nice, but not really technical, I imagine it's addressed to "IT managers" and such kind of people. :)
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