DigitalOcean Kubernetes vs. UpCloud

DigitalOcean Kubernetes

UpCloud

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
DigitalOcean Kubernetes	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	DigitalOcean's Managed Kubernetes is designed for simple and cost effective container orchestration.	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

DigitalOcean Kubernetes

UpCloud

Editions & Modules

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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
DigitalOcean Kubernetes	UpCloud
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Exact prices depend on memory and CPU demands.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	DigitalOcean Kubernetes	UpCloud

Features

DigitalOcean Kubernetes

UpCloud

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
	DigitalOcean Kubernetes - Ratings	UpCloud 6.0 1 Ratings 31% below category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	00 Ratings	9.11 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	00 Ratings	7.31 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	00 Ratings	4.51 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	00 Ratings	2.71 Ratings
Monitoring tools	00 Ratings	6.41 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	00 Ratings	4.51 Ratings
Operating system support	00 Ratings	8.21 Ratings
Security controls	00 Ratings	5.51 Ratings
Automation	00 Ratings	5.51 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	DigitalOcean Kubernetes	UpCloud
Small Businesses	Portainer Score 9.0 out of 10	DigitalOcean Droplets Score 9.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.2 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.2 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	DigitalOcean Kubernetes	UpCloud
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (1 ratings)	5.5 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	DigitalOcean Kubernetes	UpCloud
Likelihood to Recommend	DigitalOcean DO Kubernetes is well-suited for: - deploying APIs - deploying workers - log collection and analysis (ie ELK stack) - deploying Helm charts and anything that can be mapped on to K8s concepts Less appropriate for anything requiring no public Internet access (ie VPC only). Less appropriate for anything requiring integration with the DO app platform via VPC, at the moment. Incentivized CO Charles Offenbacher CTO Read full review	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	DigitalOcean Hosted dashboard Hosted container registry Horizontal auto-scaling LetsEncrypt SSL termination Incentivized CO Charles Offenbacher CTO Read full review	UpCloud Pricing Ease of use - super easy to manage existing servers and deploy new ones Great customer service Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	DigitalOcean Option for internal VPC-only deployment Better integration with cloud firewall Better integration with DO App platform via VPC Incentivized CO Charles Offenbacher CTO Read full review	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! Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	DigitalOcean DigitalOcean is the most affordable and straightforward of the hosted Kubernetes options we evaluated. All features that we require are supported without an excess of complication of extraneous features. Straightforward billing is also very important for us in comparison to the Big Three cloud hosts, which have very complicated billing practices. DigitalOcean also provides a platform with very little vendor lock-in. Incentivized CO Charles Offenbacher CTO Read full review	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	DigitalOcean Excellent uptime Low cost for provided value Good integration with the rest of the DO platform to provide additional value Incentivized CO Charles Offenbacher CTO Read full review	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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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