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by vilpponen 14y ago
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 :)
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Wow, thanks for this! We'll definitely investigate this further.
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Thanks for the comment and initial feedback! Uptime and service is definitely something which is hard to do, but at the top of our list on things to focus. And as always with services like ours - we are in the business of trust, we need to
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Thanks for asking! As for network connections, we have two providers of internet connections always available for such cases. One goes down, the other one takes over. We take redundancy very seriously. 100% SLA means that we guarantee that
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Thanks for the comment! As a small company, we can't give out machines/resources indefinitely so we need to have a cap on this. However, I do believe 100 euros towards a free server is a significant giveaway on our part and due to the natur
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by vilpponen 14y ago
They should! We just had a major push on our partners' SMS gateway so if it hasn't come by now - please use the voice activation we have in place (please check instructions in your e-mail).
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Thanks, looking forwards to it!
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by vilpponen 14y ago
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
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Thanks for the comment! Design is something we're really keen on, so all comments regarding usability are taken seriously.
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Will try to answer all questions here. Also keeping an eye on our systems due to the expected heavy load. Thinking of writing up a blog post on this to our company blog as the dust settles, how a campaign like this works.
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Absolutely, major typo there. NO credit cards required for the sign-up. Thanks.
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by vilpponen 14y ago
And to add the fine print:1) We give 100 euro of credit that enables you to run it for more than 70 days.2) No commitments, credit cards needed. 3) Non-transferrable, non-refundable, one per account - 1000 servers given out in total. We're
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We're giving out free 1CPU, 2GB, 10GB SSD -servers, celebrating our launch.(secure.upcloud.com)
39 points by vilpponen 14y ago|64 comments
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Hey, thanks for the questions! 1) Many different providers have different pricing for their different availability zones. On our part this is partly due, because we want to offer competitive pricing out of London (but also because there are
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by vilpponen 14y ago
We're prepared for a ton of interest in our service and thus we need to limit the free trial somewhat (but we still want to give everyone a go at it). However, for 10 euros we are removing all limitations and also giving you 100 euro worth
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Even though our management services, billing, API and high availability automation, among others, are homegrown - on the hypervisor side there is no added value in building your own, and we are using the open source KVM virtualisation. Than
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Thanks, we're also on Twitter @upcloudcom if you want to follow us for more frequent updates.
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Thank you :) Would love to hear your feedback on us as well.
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by vilpponen 14y ago
I'm the guy interviewed in the article. Would love to learn more what you guys value in cloud infra solutions. We're still a small, growing startup and all feedback is extremely valuable. We believe in providing extreme redundancy, with ent
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We launched our IaaS business in Europe today - what do you think?(gigaom.com)
22 points by vilpponen 14y ago|13 comments
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I recently joined a cloud infra startup (IaaS). Here are my early thoughts.(antti.vilpponen.net)
3 points by vilpponen 14y ago|0 comments
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Good story, however I'd like to ask if Vesterbacka made any clearer statements on what "managing revenue" means. Their 2011 filing for the Finnish officials state they made about 75 million euros in revenue (far from the $500 million cited
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Thank you, very much appreciated! And as said - we're looking for ways to continue it as a community driven thing, so I'm sure it's going to be around in some form. Lots of people reaching out to us currently.
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by vilpponen 14y ago
Thanks for the comment! We optimised the price in a way that we are able to sell out. It was also the maximum in revenue we could have reached so I think we did well in that sense. The key here, in running a media business, is how do you go
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by vilpponen 14y ago
I'm the guy running the company, or the guy who used to run it. It's been an awesome ride and a great learning experience. Most importantly though, I think we've been able to positively affect the Northern European startup scene in a sustai
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We're shutting down ArcticStartup - please help my team find work(arcticstartup.com)
144 points by vilpponen 14y ago|31 comments
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Applifier's Everyplay enables users to record iOS gameplay and share it(arcticstartup.com)
2 points by vilpponen 14y ago|0 comments
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Startups: Shut Down Your Companies Right(arcticstartup.com)
2 points by vilpponen 14y ago|0 comments
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Rovio's Angry Birds Successor: Casey's Contraptions(arcticstartup.com)
2 points by vilpponen 14y ago|0 comments
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Evernote was two weeks away from bankruptcy in 2008(arcticstartup.com)
19 points by vilpponen 14y ago|6 comments

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