According to the official news of Alibaba Cloud, due to the product strategy adjustment, Alibaba Cloud plans to:

On January 31, 2024, the purchase service of virtual machine windows sharing site will be stopped;

On February 29, 2024, the renewal of existing sites and the iteration of new functions and new versions will be stopped;

The service will be completely stopped on June 30, 2024, when the console, product support services and work order services will also be offline.

Alibaba Cloud provides refund channels and alternatives for users to choose from. The alternatives are:

ECS in ECS package year or replaced with Linux virtual host

See: https://help.aliyun.com/noticelist/articleid/1066195254.html?spm=a2c4g.789004748.n2.12.3ebb1865NH7whF

If your website is developed with asp or asp.net language, it is not feasible to replace it with Linux virtual host.

For ECS, it is feasible for users with certain technical capabilities and large website visits,

However, for most SME websites, it is difficult to operate and maintain a server, and it also lacks cost performance.

If you are a website building network company and your customers mostly use websites developed by asp/. net, you may need to consider other more appropriate alternatives.

Western Digital, as an old virtual host provider with more than 20 years of operation, currently manages nearly 500000 virtual hosts,

The market size is second only to Alibaba Cloud. Our Windows virtual host will not be delisted. Customers and network companies with alternative needs are welcome to migrate.

The main difficulty of Windows virtual host is that it has many security risks, and it is difficult to isolate permissions. It is easy to cause a website to have upload vulnerabilities, but because
The hacker can gain control of the whole server if the hacker raises the power due to security reasons, Or hang black chains and horses on all websites, If it is repeated, files and databases will be deleted or tampered with. Western Digital has in-depth research in this field, and the risk that the control of the entire virtual host server is mastered by hackers has never occurred in the past 10 years.

The vulnerabilities of individual websites will not affect the whole server.

Our company provides the following assistance programs:

1. Special for newly opened transfer type Virtual host : 1G website space, equipped with 100M database, 30G traffic per month, supporting windows/linux system,

It can satisfy the vast majority of SME websites. The price is 48 yuan, and the channel agency price is 8 years.

For more information, please visit: https://www.west.cn/services/webhosting/

2. The virtual host control panel provides "website moving", "remote file download" and other functions, which can help you move the website into our host more easily.

3. Provide special personnel to assist with technical problems in the migration process.

If you manage many websites and the migration takes a long time, it is recommended to plan as soon as possible. If many websites need to be migrated as a whole,

Welcome to contact us Channel Department Consultation and cooperation matters.

Western Digital Operation Center west.cn

2023-12-30