UpCloud is an European cloud hosting company alternative to the likes of AWS, Azure and DigitalOcean offering the world’s fastest cloud servers on an hourly billed, extremely redundant infrastructure-as-a-service platform for the most business-critical customers from 8 data centers based in Germany, Netherlands, Finland, UK, USA, and Singapore”.

They try to keep up with the constantly changing and evolving cloud computing & IaaS industry by developing more features and products which will make our users’ lives easier. Some of these are things like Object Storage, Load Balancing as a Service, Managed Databases, Containers as a Service etc.

Do you want to know more about our Virtual sponsor UpCloud? We asked the people of UpCloud a few questions!

How did the company get started?

UpCloud was formed by a group of like-minded thinkers who saw a clear opportunity to defy mediocrity: to become a cloud infrastructure company that would outperform every existing company on the market. With an uncompromising attitude towards working hard and playing even harder, we formed a camaraderie that invested everything we had and with our grit and ambition, we are significantly reshaping the landscape of the whole cloud infrastructure industry.

How does WordPress benefit your company?

We run our own website on WP and since our cloud offers the best price/performance ratio, A large number of users choose to run their WP sites on UpCloud and we actually have a lot of Managed WordPress agencies reselling our services.

How do you see your company evolving in the next 5 years?

We try to keep up with the constantly changing and evolving cloud computing & IaaS industry by developing more features and products which will make our users’ lives easier. Some of these are things like Object Storage, Load Balancing as a Service, Managed Databases, Containers as a Service etc.