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Many software developers build their product on Upsun. You can take several approaches, some of which are very straightforward. For instance, you can become a member of our Agency Partner Program. Or you can take advantage of our White-label offering to deliver a fully functional, fully-featured Upsun PaaS, branded with your organization’s logo. But if your business model doesn’t fit into either of the above scenarios, let’s explore some other options that might work for you.

The question that people who don’t know us constantly ask, “What does Upsun do, exactly?” Our new overview video aims to answer just that. We took a five-step approach to ensure our message was both clear and succinct: We hope that this video addresses the question about what Upsun does and inspires you to use the same five-step framework when you’re tasked with explaining a difficult concept.

The world is full of problems. Any company trying to make a name for itself in the world is going to run right smack into those problems. But the world is also full of solutions. To better find and profit from those solutions, companies are increasingly embracing open innovation, an approach to solving problems in creative and unexpected ways by collaborating with customers, partners, and employees.

Organizations thrive on organization. But as the number of projects and contributors you organize within your organization grows, it becomes more and more difficult to organize your organizational permissions. That’s why we’ve introduced a new type of organizational layer that we’ve cleverly named Organizations. Organizations allow your key contributors to manage your projects and billing, thus removing the bottleneck on the legacy project owner.

Almost four million U.S. workers a month are quitting their jobs. More than half of North American employees plan to look for a new position this year. And an alarming percentage of the workforce describe themselves as “burnt out.” Statistics like these are the shadow cast by the looming “talent turnover tsunami.” The pandemic has unmoored millions of people from their familiar patterns both at home and at work.

Contextual Code specializes in enterprise-level projects for state government agencies. We routinely tackle difficult web content management implementations, migrations, integrations, customizations, and operations. We know what it takes to get a project off the ground and onto the web. We use Upsun as our primary hosting platform because it’s incredibly flexible and it provides a vast list of services that can be set up very easily.

Hey friends, I recently joined Upsun as a Developer Relations Engineer, and I’ve been playing with the platform for a few weeks now. In this blog post, I’ll share some things I’ve learned about Upsun, how I was able to deploy my first Node.js application, and a few features that I think could be improved.