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Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun Intl) 1 Core 1 GB 40 GB SSD 1 TB Transfer from $4.5 per month
Alibaba Cloud post their new plans.
Seems cheap due to the high price of CN2 Bandwidth.
The peak bandwidth for ECS instances purchased from the General Package is 30Mbps.
https://www.alibabacloud.com/starter-packages/general?spm=a3c0i.7938564.818471.11.10521d156kp98b
1 CPU Core
1GB DDR4 Ram
40GB SSD Cloud Disk
1TB Data Transfer
$4.5 per month in Worldwide(Singapore (CN2 Direct Direct Route to China), Sydney, Frankfurt, Virginia, Silicon Valley)
$9 per month in Hong Kong(CN2 Direct Route to China)
$19 per month in Mainland China (Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Qingdao, Zhangjiakou)
It's a normal plan.
Some of Terms & FAQs
1.What products are included in the SSD Cloud Server plan?
Elastic Compute Service and a Data Transfer allowance are included in each SSD Cloud Server plan. The Data Transfer limit is only valid for the month of purchase and is reset each month. Outbound data transfers in excess of your plan's Data Transfer allowance are subject to overage charges. Please see additional data usage fees here.
2.Are there any restrictions on users and purchase volume?
Each account user can have no more than 30 instances running at the same time. If an individual user has multiple accounts, only one account is eligible to purchase this promotion.
3.How many Data Transfer Plan options are there?
There are three Data Transfer plans: China Mainland, Hong Kong, and Outside of China. These three plans support regions as listed below.
China Mainland: Beijing, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Zhangjiakou
Hong Kong: Hong Kong
Outside of China: EU Central, US East, US West, Australia, and Singapore.4.Are there any special requirements on purchasing ECS instances in Mainland China?
An ICP Filing is required for all websites hosted on ECS instances deployed within Mainland China. In order to purchase ECS instances in Mainland China, users are also required to complete real-name verification according to relevant laws and regulations in Mainland China.
5.How do I apply for an ICP Filing?
Please visit the ICP Filing Application page. Due to registration, auditing, and other requirements, the ICP Filing Application page is currently only available in Chinese characters. Support and application review services in English will be available in the future. For more information about obtaining an ICP Filing, please see ICP Filing FAQ.
Any thoughts about these plans?
Comments
Aliyun Linux.
It is cheap .I want to buy one
Why would people want to host a VPS inside China? What are the benefits?
didn't found test IP, anyone here using their Singapore location, please show us some benchmark
Maybe it is the best plan in SG for Chinese user if the port speed is acceptable.
You can take a look at my blog, there are all the International locations' test ips
A Simple Speedtest
Much Stable than International locations , due to the problems of the CT/CU/CM International backbone, and won't be blocked by GFW
Do they have a feature that will shut your server off when a certain amount of bandwidth is reached?
Nope, they will sum the overage bandwidth and send you the bill(The server continues working)
too risky, get DDOS'd and get a bill for $1000s
To tell the turth, they will cleanup the DDoS, if the amount is large, they will null your IP
It's a too high risk anyway, I agree with JoeMerit here
Some test results in Alibaba Cloud $9 Plan in Hong Kong
Speedtest-cli
Bench.sh Mark
UnixBench Mark
Note this:
https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/25430.htm
Alibaba Cloud prohibits you from:
I think VPN with access to external websites may also be a flow-through service.
"flow-through services" here refers to sending packet that use fake source IP address to DDoS, etc.
No thanks.
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The only reason for those requirements would be a backdoor.
It's totally right as the Agnitum maybe is a spyware
wow, thanks a lot for the info. I wont take any service from them.
As they are Chinese company,they may need to provide customer data and information if asked by govt . So they keep access to all the vms as my guess .
Bingo！ALL Privacy information belongs to the communist regime
Actually, abuse like DDoS isn't much related here.
"Flow-through service" was a quite common method used by small ISPs in China in previous years.
China Telecom (CT) & China Unicom (CU) are two largest ISPs in China. If another ISP, for example China Mobile (CM), transfers data with them, CM has to pay settlement fee to CT/CU. However, CT/CU imposes price discrimination: the ISP settlement fee is much higher than the network fee they charge DC/company. So CM buys flow-through services from DC/company to lower the cost.
Of course CT/CU are unpleasant and always try to stop such services. In January, MIIT, the authority in charge of telecommunication like FCC, published a notice which formally prohibited flow-through services (selling internet resources to others). Btw, recent news about China VPN ban was also triggered by this notice.
That's the story I know. Flow-through service is now illegal in China, so Alibaba Cloud includes it in its instruction.
But anyway, I haven't heard anyone banned from AliCloud (intl.) due to infringement of these terms. It seems only ECS in China need to be careful of these.
AliCloud SG
AliCloud HK
https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/zh/doc-detail/25430.htm
That's really helpful. Thanks.
That's really helpful. Thanks.
He's basically quoting the following:
https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/faq-detail/42474.htm?spm=0.0.0.0.hI2Oc1
Use English please.
https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/25430.htm
Prohibitions
Alibaba Cloud prohibits you from:
Using your instance for flow-through services. Any violation will result in punishment up to shutdown and lockout of instance, and termination of services.
Upgrading the ECS kernel or OS without prior authorization.
Activating SELinux.
Uninstalling PVDriver.
Arbitrarily modifying the MAC address of the network adapter.