Summarize the experience of purchasing Alibaba cloud servers

      As a small farmer who wants to do some small projects , It is essential to buy an affordable ECs , You can do your own website to practice , You can also do some private work , Help customers deploy on their own servers , Or simply to give customers a temporary demonstration

      Speaking of ECS , By contrast, Alibaba cloud has higher comprehensive conditions , So how to buy a server is more affordable for novices .

    New server purchase address （ The new comers' discounts are quite strong ）：https://www.aliyun.com/1111/new?userCode=euvewyh4

    Active address of old user server ：https://www.aliyun.com/daily-act/ecs/2020ecs_lottery?userCode=euvewyh4

One . About the purchase price

      First , Alibaba cloud will launch some activities from time to time , Like double eleven , Or when a product needs to be promoted , There will be special offers , In fact, these promotional activities are mainly aimed at users who purchase Alibaba cloud products for the first time , The new users' discount is very strong . That is to say, for old users , There are basically no valuable activities , That's understandable , After all, the maintenance cost of the server is very high , To introduce new customers, we have to use preferential policies .

      So for new users , That is, people who have not bought any Alibaba cloud products before , Try to wait for official activities , However, even at ordinary times, there are many official activities for newcomers , You can pay more attention to the official website .

 

        Because only new users have big discounts , So try to think about your server needs for the first time , Choose the right configuration , also Try to buy longer , Because once it expires , You'll never get this price again . I remember I bought it for about threehundred a year , I only bought it for a year , When I want to renew it after one year , It will take 671 years to display directly , I regret that I didn't buy it for a long time .

      In addition to activities , Alibaba cloud also has incentive policies , Can generate a recommended link , Recommend others to buy products , Newcomers will give a rebate to the recommender after purchasing the product , But I took a look at , Sometimes the price of the product you see through the recommendation link is more expensive than what you buy at the official event , What comes out of a sheep comes out of a sheep . But it's OK to go to the official website to find coupons .

      Let's talk about the problem of old users buying servers .

        As a regular user , My conclusion is ： The price of the event is not as good as the normal price .

        I want to get some discounts , Specially selected for purchase on the day of the double 11 , Enter the activity page and select , A nucleus 2g,t5 Server for , The following is the price of the double 11 event ：

This is the usual price ：

website ：https://ecs-buy.aliyun.com/simple/#/simple

As like as two peas , At first glance, it seems that the price of the event is indeed a little cheaper , But this is limited to one year . If you buy it for many years , The activity price is the current price multiplied by the number of years , The more you buy, the greater the discount , When chosen 3 Years long , The general purchase offers are as follows ：

The price of buying a server is basically three parts ：1. example （ It's the mainframe ）2. bandwidth 3. Hard disk .

It can be seen that the discount is very strong after three years of ordinary purchase , Almost half the price , It's much cheaper than buying it for three years at the event .

summary ： If you buy it for a year, you can choose to buy it at an event , It's best not to choose activities after years of buying . It is recommended to buy it for many years , After all, the discount is great . 

Two . About how to select the configuration

        Novices can directly choose one click to buy , The purchase process will be simplified , However, it cannot be configured elastic IP and Shared bandwidth What? , But it has little effect on novices .

    1. Choose the region

      Theoretically, try to choose a place close to you , The closer the distance, the faster the response , If the commercial traffic is large, you can choose the near . And for Xiaobai , The cheaper the better , After all, it doesn't matter if your small project is a little slower . At present, the cheapest area is Zhangjiakou , Suggested choice .

     2. Select the instance model

      One click purchase is mainly aimed at Xiaobai , So we can only buy t5 model . Want to buy another model , Need to click Custom purchase Options .

      Common types are burst performance instances t5, Shared basic xn4, Shared computing n4, Computing network enhanced sn1ne, Universal network enhanced sn2ne etc. , At the same time, these models are commonly used in most of daily business , It can be said that your business use these models are enough .

    About how to select an example , You can refer to this ：https://blog.csdn.net/u014148630/article/details/100574778

    In short, for Xiaobai , It's basically in t5 and n4 I chose ,n4 Performance ratio t5 strong , But the price is also a lot more expensive ,t5 Difficult to deal with large flow projects , But it's enough for small projects .

      Then the configuration recommendations should at least 1 nucleus 2g In memory . I bought it 1 nucleus 1g Of , And chose win2012 System , Results start tomcat I got stuck after running a project , Later it was replaced by win2008 The system is better , But it's still a card , Finally upgrade to 2g Of , There is no discount when upgrading , It's a bit of a hole .

    3. Select the system image

    Novices don't know anything about linux You can choose windows System , Best choice win2008, Just because it takes up less memory .

      Have some work experience , You'd better choose linux System , First, the system is more stable , Second, it can force you to learn linux And operation commands , Better for career development . Just choose the second version , The latest system may be unstable .

 

4. disk

      The default is 40g disk , But I suggest at least one 100g Of , Because there is a discount for starting to buy , Later upgrades will be more expensive . And I'm going to buy 3 Year's words ,40g It's really not enough .

5. Buying time

      The longer you buy, the greater the discount , At present, it can be bought for the longest time 5 year , The instance will be typed 3 fold , I suggest you buy it for three to five years

6. The Internet

    Choose default

7. Public bandwidth

      It is recommended to select fixed bandwidth , This unlimited flow . Bandwidth depends on traffic , You expect to have 1000 individual ip visit , Just choose 1M Of , It is expected that 2000ip, Just choose 2M Of .

      One thing to note is that it is checked by default “ Distribute the public network IPv4 Address ”

      If unchecked, elasticity can be bound ip, elastic ip You can go to Alibaba market to buy , Manually bind to this instance after purchase , It can also be unbound at any time . Do this ip It is equivalent to a single asset , The public network assigned by default ip It will be recalled after the server expires , And elasticity ip The server can be unbound after expiration , You can still keep this ip, I don't want to change this for long-term projects ip You can choose

8. Security group

Remember to check this one 80 Port and 443 port , Otherwise, you find that you can't visit your website through the domain name for a long time , It's normal to turn on the server again . That's because you didn't open it 80 Port access rights , Open the port at the time of purchase .

    9. Configuration information

This does not need to be set now , You can skip payment directly , Then go to the console and set it .

These are the problems encountered in purchasing Alibaba cloud servers , To sum up .