Features

Choose from 10 programming languages (including Node.js, Python, and PHP), virtually any framework (including Django, Express, Symfony, and Strapi), and an array of runtimes and services—including databases, search, and cache tooling—to find the perfect fit for every challenge. Fully managed and automated, with the latest updates and versions always available. Learn more

Instantly clone production-to-preview environments on demand, creating perfect, byte-for-byte copies that include configuration, code, and data to reduce release risk and feel confident your deployment will run as expected. Learn more

Already host your code in GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket? You can easily link it to your Upsun projects as a third-party repository, enabling your project to become a mirror of your repository. Create a new environment when a branch is created or a pull request is opened, rebuild the environment when new code is pushed to GitHub, or delete the environment when a pull request is merged effortlessly with robust automation. Learn more

Activity scripts are custom pieces of JavaScript code added to your project via a single API call or CLI command that enables your project to interact with third-party services (e.g., Slack, Twilio, PagerDuty). Automate complex tasks when an activity is triggered or has been completed. Set up custom notifications, alerts, or reminders. And so much more—the only limit is your imagination. Learn more

Managing multiple applications and projects at the same time? Our console is home base, where you can interact with projects and manage environments from a single location with a clear, interactive overview. Learn more

Everything you can do with Upsun can be done with our command-line interface (CLI), where you can manage your daily work environments and projects more efficiently, directly from a terminal. Learn more

As a container-based PaaS, our main API is Git. We also offer a REST API that enables you to manage every aspect of our platform—from managing projects and environments to creating robust workflows and integrations with your CI systems and internal services. Learn more

Build your applications on our stable, reliable infrastructure with, a 24x7, globally distributed support team. Learn more

Don’t lose sleep over lost customer data. Every Upsun project has 2 daily automated backups and 2 manual backups available to revert to at all times. With more flexibility and customization for our backups’ feature firmly on the horizon. Learn more

Using our high-bandwidth, globally distributed network built to absorb distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, applications hosted on our PaaS are protected with our robust security implementation. Learn more

Every application is deployed to a read-only file system— meaning no unwanted changes can be made to your code post-deployment. Any software installation or change to the application can only be done through a secure, auditable process, reducing the attack vector of your environments while enhancing your application security. Learn more

Protect your data from unwanted eyes with either at-rest (on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, OVHcloud, Google Cloud Platform, or Orange Cloud) or in-transit data encryption. Use IaaS-provided key management services to protect your data with at-rest encryption. Or opt for our controlled networks protected by private networking rules, with in-transit encryption to keep data secure.

Take full control of who has access to your projects, invite users to your organization, and grant them permissions to keep things moving with simple, flexible user management. Add, edit, or remove permissions at any time to reflect your project’s and team’s requirements. Learn more

Biweekly releases of fully tested patches, versions, and upgrades of runtimes and services ensure your applications remain up to date without bugs or breakages. All new security updates are deployed within 30 days—as per our PCI certificate specifications—with major security releases typically rolled out across our entire infrastructure within 2 hours.

Access your applications without having to worry about the keys. Keyless Secure Shell (SSH) access—powered by OAuth 2 and SSH certificates—securely connects users to their application server faster. Learn more

Enhanced security with multifactor authentication (MFA) requires a second security factor from users to gain SSH access to their Upsun projects. Selected on a per-project basis, Upsun users can implement MFA through the Upsun console on as few or as many projects as they want. Learn more

Our built-in Platform.sh web application firewall (WAF) protects every application and environment hosted on Upsun by monitoring requests to your application and blocking anything suspicious. Learn more

SOC 2 Type 2 and PCI DSS Level 1-compliant cloud hosting—fully automated and managed by Upsun—gives you more time to focus on code. Regular, independent third-party audits provide an external examination of the controls we’ve implemented on our infrastructure and operations, helping to ensure the highest security standards.

We’ve got you covered. Upsun, powered by Platform.sh, has group-level Public Liability and Technology Error and Omission insurance securely in place. All Platform.sh subsidiaries, including Upsun, are covered by these policies to give you true peace of mind.

We care about our customers and strive to be good custodians of their data. We don’t sell your data and remain transparent about how we use it. Adhering to GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, SOC 2, the Australian Privacy Act, and PIPEDA to ensure the highest standards of data privacy regulation.

Upsun engages subprocessors in countries within and outside of the EU and ensures that all data transfers are executed with the proper contract templates: our EU DPA for transfers to the EU and countries with an adequacy decision as designated by the European Commission, or SCCs plus Supplementary Measures Assessments for transfers to countries lacking an adequacy decision.

Built with a security-first mindset, Upsun policies and procedures are designed to cover the core aspects of information security: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. From data retention and data breach to firewall policy and vendor management, our extensive policies secure data and applications in line with cybersecurity best practices.

Increase reliability, fault tolerance, and flexibility by adding or removing instances of your application container depending on its needs. Full-control horizontal scaling empowers you to make the necessary decisions to keep your application running smoothly, seamlessly managing traffic surges. Learn more

Our projects are container-based, each service/runtime is given its very own container, each with its own CPU/RAM and disk resources available. Need to scale up or down? Flexible resource allocation makes this as simple as possible, enabling you to change container storage and CPU/RAM per container, per environment, at any time. Learn more

Manage user permissions across all of your projects from a single screen with our centralized user management system. Grant, edit, and remove access permissions for your team as needed, and keep projects moving with simplified Upsun user management. Learn more

Run automatic code updates through our Source Operations feature to specify commands that commit changes to your project’s repository—without your team having to lift a finger. Effortlessly update your application dependencies or a site from an upstream repository. Or revert to the last commit pushed to your Git repository, and much more. Learn more

Upsun comes with its own Edge layer and a feature set that will continue to expand in the coming months with a Content Delivery Network (CDN) and many more features coming soon.

Built-in observability offers infrastructure metrics that can give you valuable insights into how site components are behaving. Identify bottlenecks, and zoom in on smaller intervals. Or get the bigger picture of how, when, and where your applications are consuming resources. Learn more

Through Upsun observability, Python and PHP APM recommendations identify how, when, and where performance is impacted, so you can rapidly implement recommended changes and maintain optimal performance. Learn more

Collects function-call-level metrics from the Upsun PHP profiler, providing accurate insight into how your code is behaving and consuming resources at runtime. Pinpoint performance bottlenecks, measure data from production, and reproduce measurements on local machines to fix and merge changes to production in no time. Learn more

With continuous profiling on console, locate exactly which parts of your Node.js or Go app are consuming the most resources, then improve their performance directly from the Upsun PaaS. By understanding your systems’ resource consumption over time, you can locate, debug, and fix performance-related issues and optimize long-term performance.

Set up and modify integrations to notify your development team of varied events happening on a particular project. Receive alerts on a Git service or a custom event—like an activity script or custom webhook—to help maximize team visibility and minimize reaction time. Learn more