Changed to yet another VPS provider yesterday, so here are my initial experiences regarding our new host UpCloud.com . Disclaimer: We struck a deal with UpCloud exchanging advertising on our community for hosting credits. Even with this affiliation, I intend to share my un-biased view on their opera…

Nothing to report - it just works. There was one quick break at the Frankfurt data center and it was promptly communicated.

I would like to use them myself, but 1. they have no DDoS Protection right now, 2. They arent cheap. (But worth the money) I guess you have a certain amount of Traffic free and over that you have to pay 0.056 bucks per GB , right? And how is their speed? I would like to use Windows Server as OS m…

[image] ljpp: True test comes when there are issues, but that is yet to happen. Haha, the problem with those reliable providers is that they never let you test how they react in times if crisis :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

http://status.upcloud.com/incidents/ykt89sfkdphc http://status.upcloud.com/incidents/mnvx2sxg9nk1 http://status.upcloud.com/incidents/548qpdqzcwhv http://status.upcloud.com/incidents/m3sxxtf03xk5 Look at the dates :slight_smile:

They offer a free trial, so try them out, benchmark and see if they are a good fit for you.

I do not have a credit card unfortunately, but they said a standard bank card should work too. Problem is my granny will kill me, i dont even have direct access to my own bank account -__-

Heres some good news from them : https://www.upcloud.com/blog/upcloud-support-is-now-available-24-7-all-year-round/ :slight_smile:

I don’t know how their backup system works, but I took a snapshot of my Discourse instance literally in 3 seconds. My 1.8 update went fine though, so I have no reason to verify how the snapshots are restored.

I know a small host in germany with right now 4 employees and there (They use KVM right now like UpCloud) and while the machine is running you can take a backup in a few seconds literally, if you suspend the machine even with RAM.

[image] ljpp: I don’t know how their backup system works, but I took a snapshot of my Discourse instance literally in 3 seconds. That’s because they are not backups, they are snapshots! They aren’t the same thing. I’m not saying that it is wrong or that backups are better than snapshots. It’s…

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