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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    UpCloud

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AUpCloud 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

    Zendesk Sunshine

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ASunshine is the foundation beneath Zendesk that can be used by customers to build their own customer engagement solutions. Sunshine can be configured to meet the user's business needs using its available apps, tools, and pre-built capabilities that fits the user's own systems. Sunshine uses open standards and common languages, so it’s easier to create a support platform from a modified Zendesk, that may better suit the organization's specific needs.N/A
    Pricing
    UpCloudZendesk Sunshine
    Editions & Modules
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    UpCloudZendesk Sunshine
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    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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    Features
    UpCloudZendesk Sunshine
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of UpCloud and Zendesk Sunshine
    Feature
    UpCloud
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Zendesk Sunshine
    -
    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing4.51 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates2.71 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images4.51 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls5.51 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation5.51 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    UpCloudZendesk Sunshine
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    UpCloudZendesk Sunshine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    UpCloudZendesk Sunshine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Zendesk
    For growing technology-based companies, Zendesk Sunshine is the best ally to provide email and chat support. It supports various integrations and can provide exceptional service that is fully customizable for both the customer and the agents using Zendesk. It is not appropriate for small companies, and for companies with a very small customer base, it is a considerable expense after a customer base of at least 10,000 customers.
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    Pros
    UpCloud
    • Pricing
    • Ease of use - super easy to manage existing servers and deploy new ones
    • Great customer service
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    Zendesk
    • Customization and ability to create customer profiles
    • Easy integration with other tools and rich history of customer actions.
    • Provides a fully intuitive interface
    • Very good ways to analyze
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    Cons
    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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    Zendesk
    • There are some glitches when doing upgrades on information or data, sometimes
    • It is difficult to find tickets once they are solved, we could have a tracking of the most recent or solved tickets during the day.
    • The integration or merge with other tickets from the same client is not intuitive at all, there should be an alert that throws a match.
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    Usability
    UpCloud
    No answers on this topic
    Zendesk
    Because it is a tool that we use on a daily basis and has provided confidence for the massive use that is given to it, it has also been the expected product, allowing customization and optimizing processes, saving us a lot of money and time. Definitely, the ability to track customers and the way to automate all customer support processes becomes totally easy and intuitive.
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    Support Rating
    UpCloud
    No answers on this topic
    Zendesk
    Due to the implementation and the few issues that ha In summary, there are few times that we have had to use this functionality, but the help that Zendesk has provided has been of another level, complying with our standards and SLAs so as not to interfere in the operation or processes.ve arisen, it is a platform that provides a fast, intuitive and tailor-made service for each user.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    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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    Zendesk
    • Agility and improved response times
    • Improved customer relationship/engagement
    • Integration and tracking capabilities for customer growth phases.
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