Novice site building There are questions about the purchase of ECS, operating system and version, bandwidth size, which machine room region to choose, and how to operate and maintain. Lao Wei has helped many novices and Xiaobai deploy ECS to build a website. He has accumulated some experience, knowledge and experience in the process, and now shares them.
1. Choose ECS or VM for site establishment
This is a common problem. In terms of domestic cloud computing platforms, cloud servers are more suitable for domestic website building than virtual hosts.
- The function of domestic virtual host is relatively simple, and it is not combined with the common station building program in the market;
- ECS has more price advantage than virtual host, and it is often seen that virtual host is more expensive than ECS;
- With the rapid development of visual operation and maintenance software such as pagoda panel, the server operation and maintenance is becoming easier and easier, and the visual operation interface allows novices to operate easily.
Extended content: AliCloud's exclusive cloud virtual machine, shared cloud virtual machine and ECS
2. Domestic ECS recommendation
Alibaba Cloud is a cloud computing platform with a large market share in China. Alibaba Cloud servers are used by many products of Alibaba Group.
Tencent Cloud is another cloud computing platform with a large market share in China. QQ, WeChat, Tencent conferences, games and other home products run on Tencent Cloud Server.
3. Choose LInux or Windows for the server operating system
Linux system is selected for site establishment, and Windows is selected for remote desktop.
The Linux system not only occupies very little space, but also has high command line efficiency. The system resource consumption is very low, and the security and stability are better than the Windows system.
In addition, if your program language is. net, ASP, etc., you can only use Windows, and other website building program languages, such as php, jsp, etc. Lao Wei strongly recommends choosing Linux.
Extended reading: The difference and selection between Linux server and window server
4. Choose Centos/Debian/Ubuntu for Linux system version
Centos, Debian, and Ubuntu are all Linux distributions. There is a lot of knowledge about the operation and maintenance of the Centos system in the market, and it is easy to find solutions to relevant problems. In addition, the latest version of Centos that can be provided by choosing cloud computing platforms has comprehensive functions.
The pagoda panel supports these three Linux distributions at the same time, but it supports Centos more comprehensively. Considering the above situation, Lao Wei recommends to choose Centos system to build the station.
5. Is the default 1M bandwidth of the server sufficient? What is the appropriate bandwidth?
1Mbps bandwidth is sufficient for most small websites, personal blogs, entrepreneurial companies and other websites. Most server environments are equipped with gzip compression, which can compress web pages to a relatively small size. With cdn acceleration and object storage, it can achieve dynamic and static separation, reducing load pressure on application servers, so that visitors can quickly open web pages, Generally, it can be opened within 3 seconds.
For enterprise websites, e-commerce websites, and commercial websites, visitors have high requirements for access speed. It is suggested that the bandwidth should start at 2M and not be capped until 10M. Select the corresponding bandwidth size according to business needs.
Extended content: 1M/2M/3M/5M Difference and Selection
6. CPU processor: single core or dual core
Common server CPU processors include single core (1 core), dual core, four core, eight core, etc. The number of cores selected depends on our business situation.
- One core CPU is enough for personal blogs and small websites that do not need much computing power;
- 2 cores and more CPU cores are considered for enterprise websites, e-commerce websites and business websites.
7. How big is the server memory?
At present, the starting configuration of domestic cloud computing platforms is 2G memory, such as the entry-level server configuration in Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud discount activities: 1-core 2G1M. When the number of website visits increases, or the business requirements are high and the computing needs are high, the memory will be upgraded to larger if it is not enough.
8. Server region
Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud both provide computer rooms for nodes in mainland China and nodes outside mainland China. Users have many options. The choice depends on where your customers are. If the customer is in China, most coastal cities choose Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou and other coastal cities.
If you want a cheaper computer room, you can choose Zhangjiakou, Hohhot, Ulanqab, Chengdu, Chongqing, Nanjing, Heyuan and other computer rooms.
The node computer rooms in mainland China need to be filed with the domain name to access the website normally, while the computer rooms outside Hong Kong and mainland China do not need to be filed, but can be directly built.
9. Server security, backup and snapshot
The server, root, SSH, website login information, ftp, cloud platform login information and other account passwords should be changed regularly, kept properly, and only you know them.
Open server firewall software, such as pagoda panel free firewall, paid firewall, security dog and other security software, which can defend against attacks 24 hours a day, to a certain extent, ensure the security of servers and websites.
Data is the core content of a website. If you can see your website log, you will find that the only purpose of many hacker attacks is to download the www.zip zip file of your website. Therefore, the website should open the regular backup mechanism and do a good job of automatic snapshot of the server. Whether the server is hacked or misoperated, it can ensure the smooth operation of the business.
Please see the subsequent website construction How to build a website for novice Xiaobai to buy ECS , which contains brief content sharing.
Weiss summary
The above is Lao Wei's summary Answers to questions about new site building ECS/OS and version/bandwidth/region/security/O&M There are personal experience, knowledge accumulation and practical experience. If novices and Xiaobai can refer to the implementation, they will take fewer detours.
