Alibaba Cloud server configuration selection methods include cloud server type, CPU memory, operating system, public network bandwidth, system disk storage, network bandwidth selection, security configuration, monitoring, etc. Alibaba Cloud Encyclopedia shares Alibaba Cloud server configuration selection methods to choose the one that suits you Cloud server configuration!
Table of contents
Three: CPU and memory configuration selection
Four: Cloud server ECS specification selection
Six: Network bandwidth selection
1: Cloud server type
Choose the server that suits you based on your application. Alibaba Cloud provides many types of servers, including cloud server ECS, elastic bare server, lightweight application server, GPU server, etc. Users should choose the server that suits them based on their needs and usage scenarios. server.
ECS cloud server is a professional-level cloud server, suitable for most usage scenarios; lightweight application server is a lightweight cloud server, suitable for stand-alone applications, such as a cloud server website, small program back-end server and other stand-alone applications; GPU server is suitable Graphics rendering, scientific computing, deep learning, etc.; elastic bare metal server type physical machine, you can enjoy the performance of physical machines while also enjoying the elastic characteristics of cloud servers.
- ECS: aliyunbaike.com/go/ecs
- Lightweight: aliyunbaike.com/go/swas
- GPU: aliyunbaike.com/go/gpu
- Bare metal: aliyunbaike.com/go/ebm
For general scenarios, you can choose ECS cloud server. Currently, Alibaba Cloud mainly recommends ECS cloud server u1 instance.
2: Operating system selection
Alibaba Cloud supports multiple operating systems, including Windows and Linux. It is recommended to choose a cloud server based on the actual application:
Take Alibaba Cloud Encyclopedia as an example to build a website. If the programming language is ASP, .NET, HTML, database ACCESS, or SQL Server, it is recommended to choose Windows, such as Windows Server 2022 Data Center Edition 64-bit Chinese version; if it is PHP, PERL, CGI, It is recommended to choose Linux for database MySQL and SQLite, such as Alibaba Cloud Linux, CentOS, etc.
Regarding the choice of operating system, please refer to: What is the Alibaba Cloud server image? How to choose a mirror system?
Three: CPU and memory configuration selection
How many cores of CPU and how many gigabytes of memory are suitable for Alibaba Cloud servers? Common configurations include 2-core 4G, 4-core 8G, and 8-core 16G. Alibaba Cloud Encyclopedia is used to build a personal blog. Choose a 2-core 2G cloud server. You can choose the appropriate configuration according to your application and the number of visitors:
- Personal small website blog: For small traffic websites such as personal blogs, you can choose entry-level cloud servers. Such as 1-core CPU, 1G or 2G memory, 40G hard disk, 1M or 2M bandwidth;
- Forums and portal websites: Forums and portal websites have high user activity and visits. In order to ensure sufficient server resource space and improve access speed. You can choose 2-core CPU, 4G memory, 120G hard disk, and 3M bandwidth;
- Brand official websites: Governments, enterprises, etc. that attach great importance to official websites and brands, in order to ensure smoother website browsing and enhance the image of the government and brand. You can choose 4-core CPU, 8G memory, 150G hard disk, and 4M bandwidth;
- Video and shopping websites: Video and shopping websites contain huge amounts of data. In order to ensure rapid information processing capabilities, the website's on-demand and transactions can proceed normally. You can choose 8-core CPU, 8G memory, 300G hard disk, and more than 10M bandwidth;
- Game and software websites: Game software websites that have high requirements for development, testing, and environment require higher resource allocation to bring stronger computing performance to ensure business needs. Optional: 16-core CPU, 16G memory, 500G hard disk, 10M bandwidth.
For details, please refer to: How does a beginner choose cloud server configuration? CPU/Memory/Bandwidth/System Disk Selection Guide
Four: Cloud server ECS specification selection
Alibaba Cloud Server ECS supports multiple instance specifications, such as ECS general computing u1, ECS computing c7, general g6 and other specifications. How to choose? If it is a small and medium-sized enterprise or individual developer, Axiaoyun recommends choosing cloud server u1. If it is an enterprise-level application, it is recommended to choose computing type c7, general purpose g7 or memory type r7 instance. For details, please go to the ECS cloud server description page aliyunbaike.com/go/ecs for detailed configuration and accurate quotation of different ECS instance specifications. Alibaba Cloud Encyclopedia is used to build a personal blog, and the ECS general computing u1 instance is selected.
Five: System disk selection
Alibaba Cloud server system disk supports multiple types, such as high-efficiency cloud disk, ESSD cloud disk, SSD cloud disk, etc. For general applications, you can choose high-efficiency cloud disk. For enterprise-level applications, it is recommended to choose ESSD system disk. For cloud disk selection, please refer to: aliyunbaike.com/go/disk ESSD cloud disk uses NVMe SSD storage media and provides a variety of cloud disk specifications according to different workload scenarios. It can provide high-performance and low-latency block storage services for key applications such as SAP HANA and Oracle RAC.
Six: Network bandwidth selection
The Alibaba Cloud server public network bandwidth billing model can choose between fixed bandwidth and usage traffic. 1M bandwidth is billed as fixed bandwidth at 23 yuan a month, and 1GB traffic is billed as usage traffic at 0.8 yuan. How to choose the bandwidth billing mode? Choose based on the actual bandwidth utilization. If the cloud server bandwidth usage is less than 10%, then billing by traffic is preferred. If the actual bandwidth utilization is high, billing by fixed bandwidth is more cost-effective.
Seven: Security configuration
Alibaba Cloud server security configuration is very important. Alibaba Cloud provides security products such as cloud security center, WAF, cloud firewall, DDoS protection, etc. When using Alibaba Cloud servers, security configuration is very important. Some basic security configurations can help users ensure the security of the server, such as setting complex passwords, restricting login IPs, and installing security patches.
Eight: Monitoring and Tuning
After the Alibaba Cloud server configuration is completed, users need to ensure the stability and performance of the cloud server, so monitoring and tuning of the cloud server is particularly important. Alibaba Cloud provides a variety of monitoring and tuning tools, such as cloud monitoring, cloud logs, etc. With these tools, users can monitor server performance in real time, find and solve problems, and adjust server performance parameters to improve server performance and stability.
For more information about Alibaba Cloud Server, you can refer to Alibaba Cloud Encyclopedia aliyunbaike.com for detailed configuration, accurate quotation and usage of Alibaba Cloud Server.