UpCloud
Practical writing on cloud providers, infrastructure, deployment and cost, from the team behind the BuyCloudExpress catalogue.
MaxIOPS explained: what UpCloud’s storage actually does
Storage performance is the most commonly misdiagnosed bottleneck on a virtual server. Here is what IOPS and latency actually mean, and when storage is genuinely your…
How to read an uptime SLA properly
A 99.99% SLA is a billing agreement, not a promise about your application. Reading one correctly means knowing what it measures, what it excludes, and what…
Backups and snapshots are not the same thing
Snapshots protect against infrastructure failure. Backups protect against everything else, including you. Confusing them is how organisations discover they had neither.
Object storage or block storage: which one you actually need
They both store bytes and are not substitutes. Choosing the wrong one produces either an expensive workaround or an architecture that will not scale.
Zero-downtime deploys on modest infrastructure
Seamless releases are usually presented as a property of large platforms. The mechanism is simple enough to implement on two servers, or even one.