Learn more about Square Cloud

Square Cloud is a cloud hosting and compute capacity rental service for applications. Our mission is to simplify deploys, availability, and scale with a fast, secure, and accessible technical foundation for developers, teams, and companies.

From product promise to operational proof

This page brings together the institutional and operational points that matter most for customers, partners, and technical teams to understand what Square Cloud offers, why teams choose it, and how it sustains trust in production.

What is Square Cloud?
Cloud hosting platform for data and applications, providing computational infrastructure (vCPU, memory, and storage) and isolated virtual environments for running the client's own applications.
Why build on Square Cloud?
Because teams need reliable infrastructure, fast provisioning, scalable isolated environments, and consistent operations to host and operate their applications with autonomy and predictability.
How does Square Cloud build trust?
With high-availability infrastructure, isolated environments, and monitoring, allowing the client to deploy and operate applications with control over their own code, without continuous operational intervention from the platform.

Square Cloud FAQ: hosting, deploys, and reliability

Frequently asked questions designed for organic discovery, search intent, and clear evaluation of our hosting and infrastructure service.

Company, trust and support

Explore our brand, governance and official channels

We organized Square Cloud's key institutional information in one place to help customers, partners and compliance teams validate the brand with confidence.

Brand and identity
Understand our logo origin, symbolism and official Square Cloud domains.
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Legal and privacy
Access our latest Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy and Privacy Policy.
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Official support
Find our official support channels for technical help, customer service and legal matters.
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Company information

A consolidated view of Square Cloud's brand, legal documents and contact channels.

Brand origin

Square Cloud's logo was designed to represent both a solid technical foundation and operational flexibility.

  • Two squares represent the robustness and reliability of our infrastructure.
  • The angled composition references modern container-based architecture.
  • Our brand reflects our commitment to elasticity, portability and scalability.
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Trust and compliance
Our legal documents define responsibilities, data processing and service usage guidelines.
Contact and support
For faster assistance, use our official support channels and institutional emails.

History of Square Cloud

Discover the history of Square Cloud, our journey of innovation and growth. Learn how we evolved, overcame challenges, and continue driving the future of cloud technology.

2021 H2

Official Launch

Square Cloud was born in 2021 with João Otávio's vision of making bot hosting simple, secure, and accessible. The official launch brought native support for JavaScript and TypeScript, as well as integration with Python and Java, focusing on bots for Discord, Twitter, and Twitch. With 300 slots in the free plan, the service quickly reached 1,591 users by year-end, demonstrating its strength even in the face of challenges like DDoS attacks — overcome without compromising operations or service integrity.

2021 H2

Official Launch

Square Cloud was born in 2021 with João Otávio's vision of making bot hosting simple, secure, and accessible. The official launch brought native support for JavaScript and TypeScript, as well as integration with Python and Java, focusing on bots for Discord, Twitter, and Twitch. With 300 slots in the free plan, the service quickly reached 1,591 users by year-end, demonstrating its strength even in the face of challenges like DDoS attacks — overcome without compromising operations or service integrity.

2022 H1

Expansion and Infrastructure Improvement

In the first half of 2022, Square Cloud expanded its plans, with a significant jump in memory up to 16 GB and new options like Expert, Senior, and Ultimate, reaching 5,000 users. The complete network migration to Hivelocity significantly increased infrastructure performance and stability, laying the foundation for sustainable growth.

2022 H1

Expansion and Infrastructure Improvement

In the first half of 2022, Square Cloud expanded its plans, with a significant jump in memory up to 16 GB and new options like Expert, Senior, and Ultimate, reaching 5,000 users. The complete network migration to Hivelocity significantly increased infrastructure performance and stability, laying the foundation for sustainable growth.

2022 H2

Accelerated Growth and Global Expansion

With an accelerated pace, Square Cloud reached 10,000 users and began maintaining over a thousand free applications simultaneously. The period reinforced the Ultimate plan, with up to 32 GB of RAM, and global expansion of the service, which started offering support in English and Spanish, in addition to including the Go language, strengthening its development ecosystem.

2022 H2

Accelerated Growth and Global Expansion

With an accelerated pace, Square Cloud reached 10,000 users and began maintaining over a thousand free applications simultaneously. The period reinforced the Ultimate plan, with up to 32 GB of RAM, and global expansion of the service, which started offering support in English and Spanish, in addition to including the Go language, strengthening its development ecosystem.

2023 H1

Record Growth and New Features

The first half of 2023 marked record growth — more than 867% over the previous year. Square Cloud expanded support for languages like Rust and Elixir, launched a new panel and website with real-time logs, monitoring and proprietary systems, and reached 30,000 users, consolidating itself as one of the most complete solutions for developers.

2023 H1

Record Growth and New Features

The first half of 2023 marked record growth — more than 867% over the previous year. Square Cloud expanded support for languages like Rust and Elixir, launched a new panel and website with real-time logs, monitoring and proprietary systems, and reached 30,000 users, consolidating itself as one of the most complete solutions for developers.

2023 H2

Robust Infrastructure and Resilience

Expansion continued with support for PHP, the opening of headquarters in Goiânia, and massive investments in infrastructure, surpassing 1 TB of RAM and adding bare metal servers. Integration with GitHub was redesigned for near-instant deployments, support began operating in real time, and Square Cloud reached 40,000 users. Even in the face of Hurricane Idalia, the infrastructure in Tampa remained stable, reflecting the company's focus on resilience and performance.

2023 H2

Robust Infrastructure and Resilience

Expansion continued with support for PHP, the opening of headquarters in Goiânia, and massive investments in infrastructure, surpassing 1 TB of RAM and adding bare metal servers. Integration with GitHub was redesigned for near-instant deployments, support began operating in real time, and Square Cloud reached 40,000 users. Even in the face of Hurricane Idalia, the infrastructure in Tampa remained stable, reflecting the company's focus on resilience and performance.

2024 H1

Technical and Operational Maturity

Square Cloud entered 2024 consolidating its technical and operational maturity. Proxies were rewritten in Go, Blob storage was restructured for greater speed and security, and overall infrastructure latency was reduced. Runtimes were extensively updated, the dashboard received major improvements, and operations reinforced compliance with international standards. With billions of monthly requests processed stably, Square Cloud proved its ability to operate at scale.

2024 H1

Technical and Operational Maturity

Square Cloud entered 2024 consolidating its technical and operational maturity. Proxies were rewritten in Go, Blob storage was restructured for greater speed and security, and overall infrastructure latency was reduced. Runtimes were extensively updated, the dashboard received major improvements, and operations reinforced compliance with international standards. With billions of monthly requests processed stably, Square Cloud proved its ability to operate at scale.

2025 H1

Innovation and Performance Leadership

In 2025, Square Cloud raised its infrastructure to a new level, rewriting critical systems, expanding theoretical capacity to over 100 billion monthly requests, and optimizing processes across global clusters. New high‑performance plans were introduced, along with major API enhancements and significant improvements to the dashboard and user experience. With strengthened stability, enhanced security, and rigorous governance, Square Cloud has established itself as a benchmark for performance and reliability.

2025 H1

Innovation and Performance Leadership

In 2025, Square Cloud raised its infrastructure to a new level, rewriting critical systems, expanding theoretical capacity to over 100 billion monthly requests, and optimizing processes across global clusters. New high‑performance plans were introduced, along with major API enhancements and significant improvements to the dashboard and user experience. With strengthened stability, enhanced security, and rigorous governance, Square Cloud has established itself as a benchmark for performance and reliability.

2025 H2

Accessibility and Sophistication

The second half of 2025 marked a new phase of accessibility and sophistication. The arrival of the Hobby plan democratized access to professional hosting, while high-performance database hosting for Redis, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL expanded the service's reach. Integration with GitHub was completely redesigned, logs migrated to Grafana Loki, and the dashboard gained new analytical and personalization tools. Even under massive DDoS attacks, operations remained unshaken — a reflection of the technical maturity and resilience that define Square Cloud's trajectory.

2025 H2

Accessibility and Sophistication

The second half of 2025 marked a new phase of accessibility and sophistication. The arrival of the Hobby plan democratized access to professional hosting, while high-performance database hosting for Redis, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL expanded the service's reach. Integration with GitHub was completely redesigned, logs migrated to Grafana Loki, and the dashboard gained new analytical and personalization tools. Even under massive DDoS attacks, operations remained unshaken — a reflection of the technical maturity and resilience that define Square Cloud's trajectory.

João Otávio Stivi
Leadership

João Otávio Stivi

Founder & CEO

A developer at heart, João founded Square Cloud in 2021 with a simple goal: make deploying to the cloud effortless. He still leads the team behind the hosting infrastructure that thousands of developers trust every day.

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Our operating ethics

Trust in Square Cloud is built through consistent decisions: transparent rules, practical security, and accountability across the full product lifecycle.

Transparency
We keep policies and responsibilities public so customers and partners clearly understand how the service operates.
Applied security
We treat security as an ongoing discipline: risk mitigation, infrastructure hardening, and continuous review of operating standards.
Accountability
We design features with real impact in mind for developers, businesses and end users, with long-term reliability as a core goal.
4.9 out of 5 · 402 reviews on Google + TrustpilotHosted in a certified Tier 3 datacenter
Tier 3ISO 27001SOC 2 Type IIAlways-On DDoS Protection
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Built with Square Cloud

Zennify is a complete e-commerce ecosystem integrated with Discord, developed for creators, developers, and companies who want to sell digital products in an automated and professional way. With a focus on high performance, security, and user experience, Zennify processes thousands of transactions monthly with zero downtime.

Complete transformation

How Square Cloud transformed our operation

The decision to migrate to Square Cloud Enterprise was a turning point for Zennify. Square Cloud allowed us to abandon technical tasks that did not add direct value to our business.

Complete deployment automation
With GitHub integration, we reduced deployment time from approximately 5 minutes to less than 1 second, eliminating manual commands like scp, zip, unzip, and rm.
Simplified management
Square Cloud's containerized infrastructure fully abstracts SSL certificate management, load balancing, and automatic restarts.
On-demand scalability
To increase memory on a VPS, we need to spin up a new instance; on Square Cloud, you just purchase a new plan with a few clicks.

Measurable Results

The results that drove our growth

The transition to Square Cloud Enterprise brought significant gains for the company. Processes became more agile and integrated, with automations that reduced task execution time and eliminated operational bottlenecks.

43%
Cost Reduction

Reduction in monthly infrastructure costs.

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Ultra-fast Deploy

Deployment time reduced from 5 minutes to less than 1 second.

100%
Total Reliability

Zero downtime recorded over 19 months of operation.

16vCPUs
High Performance

CPU usage on the Enterprise plan rarely exceeds 1%.

Enhanced Security
Mitigation of the risk of total loss in case of hardware failure, common in VPS without redundancy.
Advanced Metrics
Comprehensive resource monitoring: memory, processing, network, and device analytics for continuous optimization.
Reduced Latency
Higher throughput, superior stability, and speed thanks to Square Cloud's powerful 10 Gbps uplink infrastructure.

Square Cloud completely transformed our operation. We reduced costs by 43% by migrating from traditional VPS, achieved 100% uptime over 19 consecutive months, and our deploy now takes less than 1 second. The infrastructure is extremely reliable, and the technical support is exceptional. We can't imagine Zennify running on any other hosting service.

Zennify Team

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