Nowadays, whether at home or abroad, the competition of basic network services such as hosts and servers is extremely fierce, which may lead to the difficulty of survival of individuals or small team service providers to some extent. However, sometimes the flexibility of products provided by individuals and teams is more advantageous than that of enterprises. After all, there is still market demand, It depends on how we transform and position, and the survival of many personal IDCs in China is relatively nourishing.
In recent years, Alibaba Cloud, Baidu, Tencent, Amazon and other IT industry leaders have all successively provided cloud host services, using their own advantages to provide so-called products and services on the ecological chain. From the perspective of users, we can choose the products and services that are suitable for us from a large number of service providers. Among domestic vendors, Alibaba Cloud's product structure has expanded significantly from the perspective of structure and development speed. The day before yesterday Share Tutorials At that time, I also saw that the servers in the Singapore computer room were already in the pre-sale stage.
Because we are used to looking for more preferential policies when buying overseas hosts. For Alibaba Cloud products, the official will send vouchers according to regular activities, promotion strategies and other ways. For example, we can still enjoy a lot of discounts for several activities every year. How can we save more money when choosing Alibaba Cloud servers?
Alibaba Cloud official website address: www .aliyun.com
First, how AliCloud servers can obtain preferential policies
1. Coupon
Vouchers are not published every day. They will be sent according to fixed festivals and activities. We need to pay attention to Alibaba Cloud's official website. They may be obtained by lottery, free on purchase, or domain name purchase. For example, if you buy a domain name, you will get a 20 yuan voucher. Somehow we can save 20 yuan.
2. 15 days free for new users
AliCloud often gives vouchers or free use opportunities to newly registered users. Currently, 15 days are free for new users.
If we have not used AliCloud servers, we can try to use them for 15 days.
3. Different billing methods
At present, Alibaba Cloud servers can use monthly subscription and pay as you go methods. If our usage is relatively small or only needs to be used according to project needs, pay as you go method is better. On the basis of quantity or month, Lao Zuo will read the official documents in detail to learn how to calculate.
Second, AliCloud billing strategy comparison
At present, Alibaba Cloud servers adopt two methods: monthly package and pay as you go.
1. Monthly subscription
Here, Lao Zuo first shares a simple way, which we are familiar with. We will charge according to the CPU and memory configurations we set. We can pay monthly or yearly or three years at most. There is another problem here. We can also choose fixed bandwidth or traffic based billing. For example, we can pay a monthly or yearly fixed fee for fixed bandwidth based on the fixed value of bandwidth.
If the traffic is not very large, we can set a certain bandwidth peak, and then pay according to the traffic. In this way, the theoretical speed is better than the fixed bandwidth, mainly depending on our project traffic. If the traffic is large, it may not be very economical.
2. Pay as you go
This pay as you go method is more flexible. The day before yesterday, I saw that this payment method was not understood. If I didn't understand it, I always felt uncomfortable. So today I will study the official documents to see how to pay as you go. Although there are official documents, I can't understand them, so I share them in a civilian way after reading.
A - Deduction sequence
As long as we choose the pay as you go method or the pay as you go method, we use the post billing method, which is deducted once an hour, so we need to ensure that there is a balance in the account, or it will be no fun to be shut down.
B - Deduction method
If we choose a fixed CPU, memory, data disk, and bandwidth, they are all charged by a fixed value hour; If we choose the traffic mode, we will calculate the traffic and deduct fees by hour. Only one-way outgoing traffic fees (0.8 yuan/GB) are charged, and incoming traffic is free of charge. If the outgoing traffic from the public network is 3GB within one hour, the charge is 3GB * 0.8 yuan/hour=2.4 yuan.
C - Settlement cycle
Alibaba billing is based on the hour. If we open at 17:19, it will be an hour's fee by 18:00, so we'd better buy it a few minutes after the hour. When deleting the machine, it should be a few minutes before the hour, without deducting an extra hour.
D - Arrears
If arrears will lead to downtime, the data will be retained for 7 days. If no renewal is made, the data will be deleted after 7 days and cannot be recovered.
The pay as you go method is still demanding. For example, the system cannot be replaced and upgraded after selection, and the fixed payment mode cannot be switched. It also does not support 5-day refunds and does not help with backup/case services. See here for details: http://help.aliyun.com/knowledge_detail.htm?knowledgeId=5974991
In conclusion, for any user, it is reasonable for us to choose cheap and cost-effective products. It is necessary to save money under reasonable conditions. If we want to upgrade the configuration independently, we'd better choose the fixed billing mode. Alibaba's fixed bandwidth is still expensive. Most users mentioned it. It is the same in China, and the market is a bit monopolistic. I hope some businesses can solve this problem.
