Alibaba cloud server free trial and build a WordPress website

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New users of Alibaba Cloud can receive free cloud server rights. Here is a record of the purchase and deployment configuration of the Alibaba Cloud server, and finally build a WordPress website.

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1. Free Trial

1. Select the product to use

The cloud server ECS I choose here, the cloud server ECS (Elastic Compute Service) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) level cloud computing service provided by Alibaba Cloud with excellent performance, stability, reliability, and elastic expansion.

URL: https://free.aliyun.com/

Click to try it now

2. Perform product configuration

The operating system I choose here is Ubuntu 22.04 64-bit UEFI version, click to try it now.

注意，我这里不选择 centos 的原因是 centos8 系统停止更新的时间是2021年12月，所以无论换源还是 yum update 或者 yum install 都会出现很多的问题。如果想选择 centos 的读者可以选择 centos7，centos7 停止维护的时间是 2024年6月30 日。

After the trial is successful, the following interface will pop up

3. Remotely connect to Alibaba Cloud server

①. Reset instance password

Before connecting, the instance password needs to be reset.
<1>. Open the case details.

<2>. First reset the instance password.

After resetting the password, you will be prompted to restart, just restart.

②, SecureCRT remote link

<1>, create a new session

<2>, enter the instance password just modified

<3>, connect to Alibaba Cloud server

<4>, and check server performance

lscpu						# 检查服务器的 CPU 和处理单元
grep pro /proc/cpuinfo -c	# 计算 cpu 数量
free						# 查看内存信息
vmstat						# 检查内存信息（有关进程、内存、分页、块 O、陷阱、磁盘和 cpu 活动）