What is the difference between Alibaba Cloud Hong Kong servers and mainland servers? How to choose?

The difference between Alibaba Cloud Hong Kong servers and mainland servers where? How to choose? Alibaba Cloud mainland servers mainly refer to Alibaba Cloud servers placed at nodes in the mainland region. In order to provide more services to users with different needs, Alibaba Cloud has also opened a Hong Kong node server. What are the differences between these two node servers? How to choose? Weieis blog will share details below.

1、 The difference between Alibaba Cloud Hong Kong servers and mainland servers

1. Regional differences

AliCloud mainland server nodes include Beijing, Hohhot, Qingdao and Zhangjiakou in North China, Shanghai and Hangzhou in East China, Shenzhen in South China, Chengdu in Southwest China, etc. Compared with Alibaba Cloud Hong Kong nodes, first of all, Lao Wei should emphasize that although these nodes are in different regions, the stability of servers is the same no matter where they are. Alibaba Cloud engineers build server hardware and software environments according to unified standards, which is no difference. The difference is the network fluctuation caused by different regions and different network access providers, which is an important difference.

Alibaba Cloud's domestic computer rooms are all three line direct connections (China Unicom, China Telecom, and China Mobile), and are highly stable. If you don't care much about filing, Mr. Wei strongly recommends that you build a domestic station with fast access speed and high stability.

Especially in Hong Kong and other foreign regions, because of the well-known reason that the domestic network is poorly connected to the foreign network, the connection has to be hopped through multiple routing nodes. Once one of the routing nodes has problems, such as large network fluctuations, the line will occasionally break. Weieis blog has spared the United States and Hong Kong before. When the computer room in Hong Kong (a third-party small business) was running, the speed of access to the mainland was very fast, for fear of network fluctuations in the computer room and power outages caused by maintenance. There is a problem of patience. If you think you can tolerate this kind of situation occasionally, it is also good to put it in Hong Kong, without filing.

If you have the same high requirements for the network as Mr. Wei, you'd better choose the mainland computer room to experience the smooth network connection speed, even if it takes some time to file.

2. No filing

The advantage of the Hong Kong server is that it is free of filing, and the site can be accessed immediately. This is also the main reason why many webmasters like to use Hong Kong. For example, sometimes it's just a website test. Do you have to wait for 20-30 days to apply for filing? Buy a Hong Kong server, set up a website immediately, and start testing code or projects. Business opportunities are waiting for no one.

2、 Alibaba Cloud Hong Kong server recommendation

1. After the revision of Alibaba Cloud Hong Kong server portal, lightweight servers are now available. You can directly select Hong Kong.

See the table for detailed configurations. There are several higher configurations that have not been put up. Click the link to see them.

2. The original national cloud computing and enterprise level servers have all cancelled the Hong Kong node entrance.

Now newly registered AliCloud users can Click me directly Get Alibaba Cloud 1000 yuan voucher, enter from any ECS on the voucher page, click "Buy Now">>"Buy More Configurations" in the upper right corner, and you can select the "Hong Kong" region.

3、 How to select

If you need to build a website for testing code, temporary and short-term use, fear of filing trouble, and foreign trade customers are mainly in Southeast Asia, you can use Alibaba Cloud Hong Kong server to build a website immediately. The advantage is that no filing is required. The bad thing is that there are some network fluctuations.

If you have a long-term operation plan, and the business content can be placed in Hong Kong instead of Hong Kong, then the preferred server is the mainland server. The so-called stability refers to network stability. Alibaba Cloud servers have the same stability no matter where they are placed, and their availability is as high as 99.9999%. The problem is how volatile Hong Kong is when connected to the mainland.

The servers in the mainland are all located in the BGP machine room, and are directly connected to the three networks of China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile. The natural speed of domestic access is fast and the stability is good. So if you can, Mr. Wei suggests that you put your business in China, so that users can get quick access to your website. In addition, if the search engine has a good impression of your website, it will also consider the weight points accordingly.