Student portals, apps, dashboards—always up
Higher education faces unique challenges keeping digital services live. Upsun simplifies development and deployment by removing the infrastructure burden and automating performance, security, and compliance—ensuring 99.99% uptime so even small IT teams can focus on innovation.
Trusted by leading higher-ed teams
Results that move the campus needle
0unplanned downtime
Student portals and course dashboards stay live with a 99.99% uptime, even during peak enrollment and finals week
<2minutes cloning
Create byte-to-byte environment copies with configuration, code, services, databases, and storage included
30%cost reduction
Auto-sleep for non-production environments and usage-based billing trim spend while preserving performance
*Based on Kingston University performance data and average customer savings after migration
Why choosing Upsun
Automated operations
Keep your continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline moving forward without interruption thanks to full automation. Upsun handles infrastructure details so developers deliver features directly to students.
Fast prototyping and environment cloning
Clone from production to staging under 2 minutes with byte-to-byte copies of configuration, code, services, and databases. Preview exactly how changes behave in real production conditions.
Security out of the box
Keep intellectual property and sensitive student and professor data safe. Automated backups and recovery, firewalls, and anti-DDoS protection mitigate vulnerabilities.
High availability
Students need reliable applications and tools. Upsun offers 99.99% availability and 24/7 support from our expert team.
Performance management
Upsun observability notifies you about when and how performance could be impacted. Works on production and cloned environments for 100% successful deployments.
Scalability without overprovisioning
Scale resources up and down automatically or on-demand in any dimension during activity spikes, with cost predictability and without manual intervention or hardware upgrades.
Your tools, your workflow
Integrations and APIs
Build and expose APIs for web, mobile apps, and student portals. Bring your own integration add-ons for databases, logging, monitoring, and caching to reduce work.
Standard tools & Git-based workflow
Migrating to Upsun lets teams continue using GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repositories and standard CI/CD pipelines while automating all infrastructure management.
No vendor lock-in
Future modernization requires no specific code changes. Apps, services, and routes are declared via version-controlled YAML files with no platform-specific code adaptations.
Get started
1Create account
Start free with a single project trial. Build and launch your first higher-ed app with no commitment required.
2Initialize Git
Connect your code repository to Upsun. Continue using your existing GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket workflow.
3Deploy project
Code and deploy your way. Build, test, and run apps through our web UI or CLI—without dealing with infrastructure details.
Focus on innovation, not operations
Upsun helps you deliver exceptional educational tools without having to manage complex infrastructure.
