Clouden Oy designs and builds AI-native and cloud-native systems.https://clouden.net/enThu, 01 Oct 2026 21:19:40 GMThttps://clouden.net/recent-bugfixes-in-webcat/https://clouden.net/recent-bugfixes-in-webcat/WebCat had an issue with registering non-Finnish contacts for domains. The issue was related to handling of birth dates vs. personal identification numbers in the correct format. A fix has now been released and registering non-Finnish contacts should work again. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you experience any problems.Fri, 14 Mar 2025 18:51:38 GMTWebCat Bloghttps://clouden.net/back-to-wordpress/https://clouden.net/back-to-wordpress/We’re currently developing VPS (virtual private server) functionality for WebCat. As part of this development, we’ve also moved the Clouden company website to WordPress, which runs on a WebCat server. One goal of this change is to let us write blog posts more often, to keep you updated on what we are up to. So,…Sat, 22 Feb 2025 15:41:25 GMTWebCat Bloghttps://clouden.net/webcats-transition-to-step-functions/https://clouden.net/webcats-transition-to-step-functions/WebCat is Clouden’s domain registrar service. Our customers register and renew domains and manage their DNS records. This is simple on the surface, but involves quite a few integration points. We interact with external services like the .fi top-level-domain registry and external DNS services. We also have an order processing system that has grown more…Sun, 03 Jan 2021 12:00:00 GMTWebCat Bloghttps://clouden.net/aws-reinvent-2020/https://clouden.net/aws-reinvent-2020/As always, we’ve been closely following Amazon’s new cloud technology announcements at re:Invent 2020. The event was fully virtual this year and all the talks were streamed online. Announcements were mostly made during the keynotes, while the rest of the re:Invent presentations typically focused on education and customer showcases. Here are some of our favorite…Tue, 15 Dec 2020 12:00:00 GMTWebCat Bloghttps://clouden.net/webcat-adds-shopping-cart-and-more/https://clouden.net/webcat-adds-shopping-cart-and-more/We’re happy to announce several new features in our .fi domain registrar service WebCat. When you need a .fi domain, visit webcat.fi.Thu, 06 Aug 2020 12:00:00 GMTWebCat Bloghttps://clouden.net/new-serverless-wordpress-website/https://clouden.net/new-serverless-wordpress-website/Happy Summer to all our friends! We’ve just completed an update to our website https://clouden.net which is now built using WordPress. This is mainly to make it easier for us to create and manage content. We’re not using regular WordPress though. We run a Serverless version of WordPress on AWS Lambda, which doesn’t need a server running…Fri, 17 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMTWebCat Bloghttps://clouden.net/our-favorite-aws-reinvent-2019-product-launches/https://clouden.net/our-favorite-aws-reinvent-2019-product-launches/It’s the time of the year again when AWS releases a huge amount of new products and features at the re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. We have been following re:Invent closely at Clouden and we’ve made a list of our favorite product launches. API Gateway HTTP APIs HTTP APIs are a new cost-effective alternative for…Thu, 05 Dec 2019 12:00:00 GMTWebCat Bloghttps://clouden.net/webcat-adds-dns-service-support/https://clouden.net/webcat-adds-dns-service-support/Clouden’s .fi domain registrar service WebCat now offers DNS support. When you register a domain at WebCat, you get a free DNS zone and a web-based management interface for setting up the DNS records. To activate the DNS service for a domain you’ve registered in WebCat, go to the domain’s nameserver settings and select WebCat Managed DNS.…Mon, 11 Nov 2019 12:00:00 GMTWebCat Bloghttps://clouden.net/how-we-have-prepared-for-psd2-sca-payment-requirements/https://clouden.net/how-we-have-prepared-for-psd2-sca-payment-requirements/If you’re active in online business, you may have heard of the EU PSD2 directive which sets new rules for online payments in Europe. In September 2019, a new requirement for Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) will take effect. It basically requires online payments to be authenticated with an additional factor, such as a confirmation SMS…Wed, 07 Aug 2019 12:00:00 GMTWebCat Bloghttps://clouden.net/webcat-is-open-for-business/https://clouden.net/webcat-is-open-for-business/We have just opened WebCat, our new .fi domain registrar service. If you need a .fi domain, just sign up and register one. We also welcome you to sign up for the WebCat Newsletter, which will keep you informed about new features and product offers. You can follow WebCat on Twitter, Facebook and in GitHub Issues if you’re interested in the…Sat, 27 Jul 2019 12:00:00 GMTWebCat Bloghttps://clouden.net/happy-pride-month/https://clouden.net/happy-pride-month/Clouden celebrates diversity and wishes our customers and everybody else a happy Pride Month! Amidst the celebration we are hard at work on our upcoming new cloud service and will be announcing it soon.Thu, 27 Jun 2019 12:00:00 GMTWebCat Bloghttps://clouden.net/clouden-ping-user-interface-update/https://clouden.net/clouden-ping-user-interface-update/We’ve released an update to Clouden Ping, our pay-per-request website monitoring service. The sign up process is now based on AWS Amplify, which is Amazon’s default solution for user authentication with Cognito. This allows us to leverage all the default functionality provided by Amazon and avoid maintaining a custom solution. If you run into any…Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:00:00 GMTWebCat Bloghttps://clouden.net/amazon-aws-reinvent-2018/https://clouden.net/amazon-aws-reinvent-2018/We have been following all the awesome product announcements at AWS re:Invent 2018 closely. Amazon has released a number of interesting new services and also big improvements to existing services. In this blog post we’ll take a quick look at the most interesting announcements from Clouden’s perspective, divided into four main topics. Serverless Applications AWS…Sat, 01 Dec 2018 12:00:00 GMTWebCat Bloghttps://clouden.net/fixing-our-chat-services-after-symantec-certificate-deprecation/https://clouden.net/fixing-our-chat-services-after-symantec-certificate-deprecation/If you have used Synthpedia Chat recently, you may have noticed issues with the Google Chrome browser not being able to connect to the chat. The technical reason for this is that Google has started to roll out their distrust of Symantec certificates, which was announced a year ago. Amazon’s default AWS IoT endpoints use…Thu, 22 Nov 2018 12:00:00 GMTWebCat Bloghttps://clouden.net/free-lora-iot-service-from-clouden/https://clouden.net/free-lora-iot-service-from-clouden/Clouden now offers a free 868 MHz LoRa gateway service in the central Helsinki area. If you have registered an IoT device on The Things Network, it will automatically use our gateway when it’s the closest one available. Our physical location is in Taka-Töölö, Helsinki. The gateway is installed indoors. If you are interested in LoRa,…Sun, 28 Oct 2018 12:00:00 GMTWebCat Bloghttps://clouden.net/a-refreshed-look-for-clouden/https://clouden.net/a-refreshed-look-for-clouden/We’ve updated our company logo and color scheme. The new styles are already in use on our main website and this blog. We will be gradually applying them to all our services in the near future. If you need to use our new logo somewhere, you can find it in the Clouden Press Kit. Standard…Tue, 10 Jul 2018 12:00:00 GMTWebCat Bloghttps://clouden.net/how-clouden-uses-aws-cloud-directory/https://clouden.net/how-clouden-uses-aws-cloud-directory/We spend a lot of effort in choosing the right technologies for our cloud services at Clouden. Over the years we have found Amazon Web Services to be a reliable provider of cloud platform services that scale in both performance and cost. Our strategy is to build web applications that have very low fixed costs…Sat, 19 May 2018 12:00:00 GMTWebCat Bloghttps://clouden.net/clouden-ping-now-in-public-preview/https://clouden.net/clouden-ping-now-in-public-preview/Our pay-as-you-go web host monitoring service Clouden Ping is now in Public Preview! Clouden Ping monitors all your websites and sends email notifications to you when they fail. There is no monthly subscription payment – you only pay for the actual number of pings made. Clouden Ping lets you add up to 100 web hosts…Sun, 07 Jan 2018 12:00:00 GMTWebCat Bloghttps://clouden.net/happy-new-year-from-clouden/https://clouden.net/happy-new-year-from-clouden/We’ve had an exciting year and hope you had one, too! As you can see on our home page, our cloud service and application portfolio has been growing steadily and we’re very proud of everything we’ve released so far. This is, of course, just the beginning. For the upcoming year we have all kinds of…Sun, 31 Dec 2017 12:00:00 GMTWebCat Bloghttps://clouden.net/billing-alerts-for-aws-released/https://clouden.net/billing-alerts-for-aws-released/We have just released Billing Alerts for AWS, our new application for iOS and Android. It was developed to track Amazon AWS cloud usage costs in a simple way, by receiving notifications on the phone whenever the current billing amount increases by a chosen interval. For example, when using the default interval setting of $10,…Sat, 30 Dec 2017 15:08:00 GMTWebCat Bloghttps://clouden.net/clouden-fm-youtube-live-streaming-service-now-in-public-preview/https://clouden.net/clouden-fm-youtube-live-streaming-service-now-in-public-preview/Clouden is proud to announce that Clouden FM is now in Public Preview. Clouden FM is a fully managed YouTube Live streaming service that lets you run virtual radio stations in the cloud. All you need to do is upload your music as WAV files and enter your YouTube channel’s live streaming key. Clouden FM…Sun, 10 Sep 2017 12:00:00 GMTWebCat Bloghttps://clouden.net/about-our-service-release-cycle/https://clouden.net/about-our-service-release-cycle/Clouden generally develops its services following a release cycle of (1) Internal Development, (2) Internal Testing, (3) Public Preview and (4) General Availability. Here are brief descriptions of these stages and their purpose. Internal Development Development starts when we have a new service concept we believe is worth implementing and offering to our customers. Internal…Mon, 04 Sep 2017 12:00:00 GMTWebCat Bloghttps://clouden.net/yesterdays-amazon-lambda-outage/https://clouden.net/yesterdays-amazon-lambda-outage/Yesterday, Amazon had a brief Lambda service outage in the Ireland region, affecting some of Clouden’s systems for about 1.5 hours. Since we are currently testing a number of new services, this was a good opportunity to see how they survive outages in cloud infrastructure. We take outages seriously but we also think they are…Fri, 25 Aug 2017 12:00:00 GMTWebCat Bloghttps://clouden.net/developing-new-clouden-services/https://clouden.net/developing-new-clouden-services/We’d like to give you an update on some forthcoming Clouden services, which we are developing and testing right now. If you are interested in what we do, please follow this blog and subscribe to our Twitter Feed for more future updates. Clouden FM – YouTube live streaming automation Clouden FM offers a simple way…Sun, 13 Aug 2017 12:00:00 GMTWebCat Blog