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CenturyLink Public Cloud (discontinued) vs. UpCloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CenturyLink Public Cloud (discontinued)
Score 6.3 out of 10
N/A
CenturyLink Public Cloud was a set of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DBaaS and cloud management tools. Later rebranded to Lumen, Lumen recommends the service's former customers migrate to Lumen Cloud Connect.N/A
UpCloud
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
UpCloud is a global cloud hosting company offering cloud servers on an hourly billed infrastructure-as-a-service. Their IaaS services include MaxIOPS block storage, their Simple backup service, SDN services, and resource isolation.
$0.09
per month per GB
Pricing
CenturyLink Public Cloud (discontinued)UpCloud
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Private Cloud Storage
€0.085
per month per GB
Block Storage - Standard
€0.085
per month
Block Storage - MaxIOPS
€0.220
per month
SDN Private Networks - Floating IP address
€3.15
per month
Private Cloud Hosts -Standard Nodes
€2,499
per month
Cloud Servers - General Purpose
Starting from €7
per month
GPU Servers
Starting from €1.111
per hour
Cloud Servers - High CPU
Starting from €130
per month
Cloud Servers - Developer
Starting from €3
per month
Cloud Servers - High Memory
Starting from €40
per month
Cloud Servers - Cloud Native
Starting from €12
per month
Relational Databases - 1 Node
Starting from €30
per month
Managed Object Storage
starting from €5
per month 250GB
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CenturyLink Public Cloud (discontinued)UpCloud
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details—Exact prices depend on memory and CPU demands.
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Community Pulse
CenturyLink Public Cloud (discontinued)UpCloud
Features
CenturyLink Public Cloud (discontinued)UpCloud
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
CenturyLink Public Cloud (discontinued)
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Ratings
UpCloud
6.0
1 Ratings
31% below category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Dynamic scaling00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Elastic load balancing00 Ratings4.51 Ratings
Pre-configured templates00 Ratings2.71 Ratings
Monitoring tools00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings4.51 Ratings
Operating system support00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Security controls00 Ratings5.51 Ratings
Automation00 Ratings5.51 Ratings
Best Alternatives
CenturyLink Public Cloud (discontinued)UpCloud
Small Businesses
DigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean Droplets
Score 9.4 out of 10
DigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean Droplets
Score 9.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.0 out of 10
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.0 out of 10
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
CenturyLink Public Cloud (discontinued)UpCloud
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(1 ratings)
5.5
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
CenturyLink Public Cloud (discontinued)UpCloud
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
I believe for small to mid business application hosting Centurylink provides an adequate service. When moving to larger scale business enviornments I believe the limitations, slowness is going to become a problem
Verified User
Anonymous
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UpCloud
If you're looking for a cost-effective solution then this is a good choice, be sure to keep on top of your balance! The 100% uptime is also a nice addition, although not unique in a cloud hosting service.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • Offloading the requirements for hosting apps in house - cost savings
  • Access ability - users could access documents and programs from anywhere
  • Collaborative work ability - multiple users could work within the same enviornment
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UpCloud
  • Pricing
  • Ease of use - super easy to manage existing servers and deploy new ones
  • Great customer service
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • Perhaps ease of use - it's not convoluted but a little more streamlined of an interface would be great
  • Make your presence more known - in a world of heavily advertised cloud options CenturyLink is not at the top of the pile and I think it may be due to a lack of awareness in the business community. Advertise!
  • Streamline functionality - interface can be a little slow at times.
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UpCloud
  • The billing reports are quite hard to read, could be simplified
  • A control panel function would be useful
  • The re-billing process could be better, not so cut throat if you miss a payment!
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
I did not select the application hosting environment - I was a user. That being said I do not have much of a voice in the difference between hosted services that I have experienced.
Verified User
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UpCloud
We trialed UpCloud to see if it would be better than DigitalOcean but for our needs, it was not. On DigitalOcean once a droplet is created, almost no thought needs to go into maintenance, outages, or other reliability-based issues.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
UpCloud
  • The low cost means you don't really need to worry about pricing
  • To us as a business it was not as useful as DigitalOcean
Verified User
Anonymous
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ScreenShots

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