The difference between Tencent Cloud lightweight application server and ECS, VPS server, virtual host and how to select them?

Tencent Cloud lightweight application server And Tencent ECS VPS servers and virtual hosts are very different. Lightweight application servers are application oriented and help users quickly build businesses on the cloud. VPS servers are used by dividing multiple virtual servers from one physical server; The virtual host shares a physical server resource in multiple websites. Previously, Lao Wei shared what Tencent Cloud lightweight application server is, the difference and selection between lightweight application server and cloud server. Lao Wei will share their differences and selection basis in this article.

Features of lightweight application server, ECS, VPS server and virtual host

Tencent Cloud Lightweight Application Server (Lighthouse): a kind of cloud server that is easy to manage. It takes applications first and is suitable for lightweight services. Help developers and small and medium-sized enterprises quickly build websites, blogs, e-commerce, forums and other applications and develop test environments, which can easily deploy, configure and manage applications and improve user experience;
Reference: What is Tencent Cloud Lightweight Application Server (Lighthouse)

Tencent Cloud Server (CVM): a cloud server suitable for all users, with excellent performance and powerful functions. Users can choose freely according to business needs, and can adjust the configuration later without affecting business operation;

Virtual server (VPS): The physical server is divided into multiple virtual server locations through virtualization technology. Each VPS server has an independent IP address and independent management permissions, which can be managed and set just like the physical server;

Virtual Hosting is a physical server shared by multiple websites at the bottom. Users have FTP permissions for their own websites and can upload files to their own website space. Unlike the server, the virtual host can only be used to build a station, and has no permission to manage the system.

At the time of this article, Tencent Cloud has two models to choose from: lightweight application server and cloud server.

Tencent Cloud lightweight application server discount page

Tencent Cloud lightweight server has two portal websites. The first is the lighthouse product page of the lightweight application server（ Click me directly ）, the other is the lightweight application server activity page（ Click me directly ）You can compare the two pages to see which one is more affordable.

Tencent ECS discount page

The following is a list of promotional activities for Tencent ECS. You can choose the appropriate configuration to use. Don't know how to choose to contact Lao Wei on the right side of the page , help select the appropriate configuration.

The function difference between lightweight application server and ECS, VPS server and virtual host

On the basis, lightweight application servers are closely integrated with applications on top of ECS, and their performance is not as good as ECS;

ECS has the best overall performance and many parameters among these types;

A VPS server is just a virtual number of servers from a physical server;

The virtual host is a virtual site building space, which can only be created without management permission;

The following table summarizes the differences from the functional perspective:

Selection of lightweight application server, ECS, VPS server and virtual host

Tencent Cloud lightweight application server The focus is on application, and users who need this aspect can be preferred;

Tencent ECS It is suitable for all users to choose, and is also strongly recommended by Lao Wei. If you don't know how to choose, please add Lao Wei's contact information on the right side of the page to help you choose;
Reference: The difference and selection between Tencent cloud lightweight application server and Tencent cloud server

VPS servers are not cheap, and their performance is not as good as that of ECS. The key is that once the physical server (mother machine) fails, all the virtual servers (chicks) hang up. Maybe they can't even find the data. Lao Wei did not suggest choosing;

The virtual host is suitable for users who do not understand the technology to learn and use. It can not manage the server when building a real website, and there are too many restrictions.