With the rapid development of the Internet, cloud servers have increasingly become the first choice for individuals and enterprises to go to the cloud. Xiaobai did not understand the relevant situation when choosing Alibaba Cloud servers. The author shared this article from the configuration, model, cost, region, operating system, environment, and site construction. Programs and many other aspects will explain in detail the important places that novices of Alibaba Cloud ECS server must see.
Configuration selection
Choose 1 core 2g1m for personal blogs and small websites, choose 2 cores 4g3m for corporate websites, official accounts, small programs, and remote desktops, choose 2 cores 4g5m and 2 cores 8g5m for larger traffic requirements, and choose 4 cores 8G5M for large and medium-sized websites. 4 core 8G10M configuration. According to the business requirements that Starspeed Cloud has contacted, this law is more in line with the actual situation.
Of course, different services can also use higher configurations. For example, if the traffic of catering applets becomes larger and larger, they must be configured with 2-core 8G5M or 4-core 8G5M. This choice is flexible and can be changed according to actual needs.
Model selection
Choose shared S6 for personal blogs and small websites; choose computing C5/C6, general purpose for corporate websites, official accounts, applets, and remote desktops; choose computing network enhanced and general network enhanced for high traffic requirements. Combining the above configuration options, finally select a configuration model suitable for business use.
Cloud cost
In addition to server configuration choices, we are also concerned about how much money is needed to purchase a cloud server. Pay after Aliyun voucher , which includes voucher and ultra-low discount. After use, it can offset part of the cost and save the cost of going to the cloud. This is a benefit provided by Alibaba Cloud to encourage everyone to go to the cloud.
According to the logic of cloud computing merchants, the longer the purchase time, the better, and the 1-year discount is greater than the 3-year discount. If possible, the author recommends that new users choose 3 years for the first purchase, so the discount is very low.
Alibaba Cloud will have big promotions at a fixed time every year. The current relatively fixed time points are the spring promotion in March, the big promotion in 618, and the double 11 and double 12. You can usually see the regular discounts in the upper right corner of this page, and the discounts are also very strong.
Server area
Looking at the national network, the three nodes of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou are the best choices, and the developed Internet in big cities is the first choice. If the business is for a certain area, for example, the catering applet only delivers meals to white-collar users in an office building in Qingdao, then you can choose the Qingdao area nearby. Not only the cost is lower than that of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, but the speed is also faster. In addition, if the budget is insufficient, you can choose Hohhot, Zhangjiakou, Chengdu, etc., the connection speed in China is very fast, and the cost will drop by 20%. Southern users can give priority to the Aliyun Heyuan data room, which uses the Dragon architecture to improve performance and reduce costs. More reference documents> Regions and Availability Zones
Operating system selection
Windows is suitable for windows programs such as .NET and ASP, and supports SQL Server and MySQL databases. It is also used to make remote desktop and hang-up software;
The Linux system is currently a popular server operating system with much better security and stability than windows. It is used with PHP language and MySQL database and is a high-performance tool for website building. As the domestically-made visualization panels are getting better and better, it is also recommended that the Linux system is the first choice.
For example, when you choose an operating system when building a website, the windows system is recommended to start with a 2-core 4g configuration. If you run the program below this configuration, you will feel stuck; while the linux system starts with a 1-core 2g configuration, performance, speed, and security can all be beaten to 2 cores. The 4g widows system is now available.
Deploy the site environment
A variety of images are provided when purchasing Alibaba Cloud servers. You can choose different linux operating systems in the image market, or choose to use the visualization panel to deploy the site environment. Novices recommend using the Pagoda panel in the Alibaba Cloud mirroring market to deploy. Friends who are familiar with site building operations can deploy manually to meet different business needs.
The benefits of the visual panel, in addition to the rapid deployment of the environment, can also quickly build a website and maintain the normal operation of the server. For more details, please see the official documentation .
Install website program
After deploying the environment, upload the website building program. Through the visualization panel, you can quickly build the website program, modify the port number, establish the database name and database account password, website and server security settings, etc., and you can quickly get it done. There will be more energy on operation later On the website.
The above are the points that Xiaobai needs to pay attention to when buying Alibaba Cloud servers, which basically cover some of the questions and entanglements that novices will ask. If you have other questions, remember to leave a message