DigitalOcean Kubernetes vs. UpCloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting 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 KubernetesUpCloud
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
DigitalOcean KubernetesUpCloud
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsExact prices depend on memory and CPU demands.
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Community Pulse
DigitalOcean KubernetesUpCloud
Features
DigitalOcean KubernetesUpCloud
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
DigitalOcean Kubernetes
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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
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User Ratings
DigitalOcean KubernetesUpCloud
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
5.5
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
DigitalOcean KubernetesUpCloud
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.
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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.
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Pros
DigitalOcean
  • Hosted dashboard
  • Hosted container registry
  • Horizontal auto-scaling
  • LetsEncrypt SSL termination
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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
DigitalOcean
  • Option for internal VPC-only deployment
  • Better integration with cloud firewall
  • Better integration with DO App platform via VPC
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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
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.
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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.
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Return on Investment
DigitalOcean
  • Excellent uptime
  • Low cost for provided value
  • Good integration with the rest of the DO platform to provide additional value
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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
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ScreenShots

UpCloud Screenshots

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