The limited time 50% discount activity for Alibaba Cloud's Hi shopping season is in full swing. I believe many people have seen this activity, and some students have also participated in the purchase of activity products. In this article, Weieis Blog is about how to save money when participating in this activity.
People usually buy ECS or participate in activities to buy cheap and easy-to-use ECS. In order to help you buy cost-effective cloud products, Lao Wei shares his ideas below, hoping to help you.
1、 New and old users
1. Only new users can enjoy the low-cost cloud products. The following two product screenshots are two core 4G memory 1M bandwidth models. One is the new users' sub venue, and the other is the basic cloud products' sub venue. The configuration is exactly the same, and the price difference is nearly 500 yuan.
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Old users (branch venue of basic cloud products): Click me directly
That means new users can enjoy the price of 1530 yuan/year, while old users can only buy the same model for 2008.74 yuan. This is also the reason why some old users say that new users are as expensive as oil and old users are not as good as dogs. In fact, it is also a marketing routine, just to promote new achievements.
As old users, can we just watch new users enjoy the carnival? Of course not. We can also pull the wool of Alibaba Cloud like new users. See here.
Since new users can enjoy Alibaba Cloud's low price cloud products, we can register a new AliCloud account with the Alipay account of our girlfriend, family, relatives and friends, and then go to the event to enjoy the price of new users. For more detailed operation procedures, please move to AliCloud active old users can save money by purchasing servers 。
2. AliCloud staging
20% down payment plus installment can save up to 50% of the cloud launch fee. This is similar to offline housing loan and car loan. In fact, the loan is also issued by Alibaba Group's products, and I have to admire Boss Ma's routine, which is really high. The boss's palm can't be turned around.
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Alibaba Cloud staging is particularly beneficial to enterprises. For example, the amount of cloud products purchased by enterprises is often high, ranging from tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands to millions of yuan. In order to save money, enterprises can borrow money from banks, which is no different from that from Alibaba. In addition, Alibaba's loan review and lending are fast, and the interest rate is not higher than that of other banks. Overall, it's quite cost-effective. If you are interested, please move AliCloud installment payment 20% down payment plus installment can save up to 50% of enterprise cloud costs 。
2、 Bandwidth difference&purchase duration
1. Each time Alibaba Cloud conducts activities, it will launch models with different bandwidth configurations. For example, the price of 1M of 2-core 4G memory in the figure below is 1530 yuan/year; With the same configuration, the 3M bandwidth is only 1690 yuan/year. New students don't know that bandwidth accounts for a high proportion of the cost of domestic ECS. The larger the bandwidth, the more expensive it is.
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Wei went to the official AliCloud website and found that the price difference between 1M bandwidth and 3M bandwidth is 500 yuan. In this event, the price increased by only 160 yuan from 1M to 3M;
The price difference between 3M bandwidth and 5M bandwidth of 2-core 8G memory in the event is 240 yuan; However, for the models with the same configuration in the official website, the price difference of different bandwidth is 550 yuan, which is not too cost-effective.
Another thing is that since you have bought such a high configuration, the business traffic will not be small. It is better to buy large bandwidth directly in one step rather than choose small bandwidth, which saves money and is cost-effective.
2. Duration gap
Look at the active model: the same model with the sudden performance instance and the shared instance, and the payment in one year and the payment in three years. There is also a gap in prices.
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For instance of sudden performance, 366 yuan will be paid for one year, while 879 yuan will be paid for three years directly, which is equivalent to 293 yuan/year;
For shared instances, 720 yuan is paid for one year, while 1959 yuan is paid for three years directly, which is equivalent to 653 yuan/year.
After the above comparison, we know that the longer the purchase time, the cheaper it will be, the more cost-effective it will be.
The above is a summary of how to participate in Alibaba Cloud's new year Hi shopping season with a 50% discount and save money. I hope it will be useful to everyone and help everyone save money.
