Service comparison

DigitalOcean vs. UpCloud

DigitalOcean vs. UpCloud — reliability, API availability, and incident frequency head-to-head.

Last 90 days · 40 incidents total · Data via Pulsetic monitoring

Head-to-head

90-day summary

DigitalOcean

digitalocean.com

Online
- 90-day uptime
  
  96.17%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  31
  
  4 major · 27 minor
- Median resolution
  
  1h 48m
- Longest outage
  
  16h 47m
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UpCloud

upcloud.com

Ongoing incident
- 90-day uptime
  
  98.52%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  9
  
  1 major · 8 minor
- Median resolution
  
  3h 17m
- Longest outage
  
  9h 12m
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Uptime over time

Availability across windows

Window	DigitalOcean	UpCloud	Δ
Last 24 hours	100.00%	100.00%	0.00 pp
Last 7 days	99.68%	100.00%	-0.32 pp
Last 30 days	98.55%	98.95%	-0.40 pp
Last 90 days	96.17%	98.52%	-2.35 pp

Δ is percentage-point difference (DigitalOcean minus UpCloud). Higher is better.

Incidents 90-day

Severity breakdown

DigitalOcean

31 total

4 major 27 minor
- Median resolution
  
  1h 48m
- Longest outage
  
  16h 47m
UpCloud

9 total

1 major 8 minor
- Median resolution
  
  3h 17m
- Longest outage
  
  9h 12m

Recent activity

Last 5 incidents, side-by-side

DigitalOcean
- Jun 27
  
  Droplet Backup Service
  
  < 1m
  
  Minor
- Jun 27
  
  Anthropic Inference Model Availability
  
  32m
  
  Minor
- Jun 19
  
  Monitoring Graphs in the Cloud Control Panel
  
  2h 37m
  
  Minor
- Jun 16
  
  Intermittent 500 Errors on Serverless/GenAI Inference API
  
  2h 28m
  
  Minor
- Jun 11
  
  DeepSeek V4 Pro is returning HTTP 429 "Rate limit exceeded"
  
  3h 17m
  
  Major
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UpCloud
- Jun 16
  
  DNS Resolution Issues in FI-HEL1 and FI-HEL2
  
  3h 12m
  
  Minor
- Jun 15
  
  Payment processor issues with American Express
  
  Ongoing
  
  Minor
- Jun 5
  
  [SG-SIN1]: Networking issue
  
  4h 20m
  
  Minor
- May 26
  
  Error with new cloud service deployments
  
  3h 2m
  
  Major
- May 13
  
  [SG-SIN1]: Managed Kubernetes Issue
  
  9h 12m
  
  Minor
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Bottom line

UpCloud wins

UpCloud edges out on 90-day uptime.

DigitalOcean posted 96.17% vs. 98.52% for UpCloud (Δ -2.35 pp). Incidents: 31 vs. 9 (+22).

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