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> UpCloud claims to have 100 percent homegrown virtualization tech

What does that mean? Did you build your own hypervisor from scratch!?

Even though our management services, billing, API and high availability automation, among others, are homegrown - on the hypervisor side there is no added value in building your own, and we are using the open source KVM virtualisation.

Thanks for the comment!

Ok, that makes more sense. I don't much about virtualization but my understanding is that building an hypervisor is quite a lot of work and I couldn't understand why an IaaS startup would want to build its own.

Thanks for the answer!

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