UpCloud post-FOSDEM
@upcloud.com
A cloud provider from Finland, with data centers around the world.
Private, secure, cost-effective servers.
This account is run by engineers.
Would you like to know more?
https://upcloud.com
Private, secure, cost-effective servers.
This account is run by engineers.
Would you like to know more?
https://upcloud.com
Migrated our PDS to a different [redacted, secret feature] while server is live, if you see this post everything is fine
February 5, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Migrated our PDS to a different [redacted, secret feature] while server is live, if you see this post everything is fine
Reposted by UpCloud post-FOSDEM
1738, ay 🔔‼️
I'm like "Hey, what's upcloud? Hello" 🗣️‼️
Seen your pretty cables soon as you came in the door 🔌⚡
I just wanna chill, got sebers for us to roll 🖨️🫷
Married to upcloud, introduced her to my nix config 💻❄️
I'm like "Hey, what's upcloud? Hello" 🗣️‼️
Seen your pretty cables soon as you came in the door 🔌⚡
I just wanna chill, got sebers for us to roll 🖨️🫷
Married to upcloud, introduced her to my nix config 💻❄️
January 26, 2026 at 5:16 PM
1738, ay 🔔‼️
I'm like "Hey, what's upcloud? Hello" 🗣️‼️
Seen your pretty cables soon as you came in the door 🔌⚡
I just wanna chill, got sebers for us to roll 🖨️🫷
Married to upcloud, introduced her to my nix config 💻❄️
I'm like "Hey, what's upcloud? Hello" 🗣️‼️
Seen your pretty cables soon as you came in the door 🔌⚡
I just wanna chill, got sebers for us to roll 🖨️🫷
Married to upcloud, introduced her to my nix config 💻❄️
One of our engineers made a PR at 3AM last night, with the description "Had a dream where delete action was miss-clicked instead of csvexport. So removing the option from action list. Prefer this dream to never come true"
Do not underestimate nightmare-driven development
Do not underestimate nightmare-driven development
January 21, 2026 at 8:20 AM
One of our engineers made a PR at 3AM last night, with the description "Had a dream where delete action was miss-clicked instead of csvexport. So removing the option from action list. Prefer this dream to never come true"
Do not underestimate nightmare-driven development
Do not underestimate nightmare-driven development
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And another one, no-svg1 🇳🇴
...contrary to the name, you will in fact be allowed to store SVGs in this DC
...contrary to the name, you will in fact be allowed to store SVGs in this DC
New data center: dk-cph1! 🇩🇰 Thanks ops, SRE, and more engineers for all the hard work!
January 20, 2026 at 8:43 AM
And another one, no-svg1 🇳🇴
...contrary to the name, you will in fact be allowed to store SVGs in this DC
...contrary to the name, you will in fact be allowed to store SVGs in this DC
(don’t say the haskell thing, don’t say the haskell thing, don’t say the haskell thing)
dear, finnish cloud provider, i love you.
January 15, 2026 at 12:48 PM
(don’t say the haskell thing, don’t say the haskell thing, don’t say the haskell thing)
Spooky UpCloud Fact: They let the engineers in the Helsinki office make snow angels on the terrace, whenever the engineers want!
January 15, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Spooky UpCloud Fact: They let the engineers in the Helsinki office make snow angels on the terrace, whenever the engineers want!
Hello, we're UpCloud, you’ll be able to blame us (and get SLA) if things go wrong
To compete with AWS and other hyperscalers, you need more than technology. Large incumbent cloud providers are also selling comfort to corporate employees. And if you too want to rake in billions of revenues, you had best be selling that too: berthub.eu/articles/pos...
AWS and Microsoft are selling much more than cloud services - Bert Hubert
Ten, twenty years ago customers over at large corporations would often ask me what hardware they’d need to run my software. As software developers, we’d tend to be rather blasé about such questions: “...
berthub.eu
January 7, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Hello, we're UpCloud, you’ll be able to blame us (and get SLA) if things go wrong
(Lyingly) All UpCloud internal codebases use JJ for version control
January 7, 2026 at 11:57 AM
(Lyingly) All UpCloud internal codebases use JJ for version control
Renting a big VPS only to use 30% CPU load average and 75% peak 🤔
December 31, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Renting a big VPS only to use 30% CPU load average and 75% peak 🤔
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the more you interact with the UpCloud account on bsky the more time it gives engineers to write off doing open source projects during work time under the marketing budget
December 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
the more you interact with the UpCloud account on bsky the more time it gives engineers to write off doing open source projects during work time under the marketing budget
Hopefully it's not too ominous to say that the dev writing this is really excited about something, but NDA prevents us from saying what
December 29, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Hopefully it's not too ominous to say that the dev writing this is really excited about something, but NDA prevents us from saying what
Wow @scaleway.com is here too, and on a mushroom no less - would you like an invite code to our PDS??
December 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Wow @scaleway.com is here too, and on a mushroom no less - would you like an invite code to our PDS??
Good morning! We had some network issues this morning unfortunately, causing some of our past posts to age like fine wine. It was not DNS btw.
(subposting us-east-1 issues) Guess who's *not* down on Monday morning
December 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Good morning! We had some network issues this morning unfortunately, causing some of our past posts to age like fine wine. It was not DNS btw.
Da datacentralen i Kongens København blev koblet på, begyndte pingpakkerne pludselig at tale pænt dansk
December 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Da datacentralen i Kongens København blev koblet på, begyndte pingpakkerne pludselig at tale pænt dansk
New data center: dk-cph1! 🇩🇰 Thanks ops, SRE, and more engineers for all the hard work!
December 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
New data center: dk-cph1! 🇩🇰 Thanks ops, SRE, and more engineers for all the hard work!
🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/upcloud.com Yapping, programming, possible streamplace network issues
@upcloud.com is 🔴LIVE on stream.place!
Yapping, programming, possible streamplace network issues
stream.place
December 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/upcloud.com Yapping, programming, possible streamplace network issues
There was a sock sandwiched between the motherboard and chassis of the thinkpad that the employee returned to IT; IT is now free
December 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
There was a sock sandwiched between the motherboard and chassis of the thinkpad that the employee returned to IT; IT is now free
This was such a fun read! ..and brings quite a warm feeling to see that we (we the engineers on this acc) are brainworming into people's heads, not that that's the goal of being here, we just want to yap about technical things & have fun.
...Yes the hard reality that is UpCloud is big 12yo legacy
...Yes the hard reality that is UpCloud is big 12yo legacy
Did you know that @upcloud.com has been around for over a decade? I ought to know, but I didn't anymore.
For my first post on @leaflet.pub, I'm sharing memories of my teenage years before I forgot them for good.
For my first post on @leaflet.pub, I'm sharing memories of my teenage years before I forgot them for good.
UpCloud's viral marketing travels in time
Where I find that I've been a long-time nonpaying customer of Bluesky's favorite, allegedly-affordable, cloud provider, while you get to be fed relevant portions of my life story.
gbl08ma.leaflet.pub
December 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This was such a fun read! ..and brings quite a warm feeling to see that we (we the engineers on this acc) are brainworming into people's heads, not that that's the goal of being here, we just want to yap about technical things & have fun.
...Yes the hard reality that is UpCloud is big 12yo legacy
...Yes the hard reality that is UpCloud is big 12yo legacy
Hello, how goes everyone on the ~~bad~~ good take generator today?
December 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Hello, how goes everyone on the ~~bad~~ good take generator today?
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Learning go (the game) will surely improve our go skills (the language)
December 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Learning go (the game) will surely improve our go skills (the language)