Huawei Cloud Host review
After registration, you get free 410 RMB (about 70 USD).
When you choose the plan of 99 RMB, you can use it for 4 months for free.
Another plan you can even get 1000 RMB for free, I have not tried that.
Each cloud host (99 RMB plan) gets:
OS: Linux, I choose Ubuntu
Two public IPs: one for telecom ISP, one for unicom ISP
CPU: 1 vCPU
Mem: 1 GB memory
Disk: 40 GB system disk, 20 GB data disk
Bandwidth: 2 MB unlimited
Test downloading:
root@ubuntu:~# wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/10mb.test
--2013-12-28 16:57:46-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/10mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net (cachefly.cachefly.net)... 204.93.150.151
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net (cachefly.cachefly.net)|204.93.150.151|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 10485760 (10M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `10mb.test'
100%[======================================================================================================================================>] 10,485,760 243K/s in 43s
2013-12-28 16:58:29 (236 KB/s) - `10mb.test' saved [10485760/10485760]
Test DISK IO:
root@ubuntu:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test.file bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 55.2517 s, 19.4 MB/s
Both network and disk IO are not good.
Anyway it's free so far.
And you know, Chinese servers are generally expensive.
Comments
is there a catch? 4 months free is insane!
The catch? Hosting with Huawei would be like hosting with NSA directly, only this time the chinese version of the NSA will play with your data.
I failed to locate the link to the service on the Huawei main web site. Is this available internationally? Even at regular price, it does seems reasonably priced. Other China VPS providers with english support (such as fedvps or chinavpshosting) starts at $18/month, while cloud providers such as aliyun.com don't have a english web site, and my understanding of the chinese language is not good enough.
so where can i register this? why you no give link?
I believe the URL is hwclouds.com
I have tried to register on their website but they do not allow foreign phone numbers. Only within China it seems.
https://console.hwclouds.com/customer/account/registera
Thanks!
So? I'd prefer them or the KGB any day (using Yandex mail)
can you tell me where i can register ?
@Lewatan www.hwclouds.com
I have a china Unicom prepaid number. I can load it on my phone can the verification be sent on roaming?
thank you @letaotor
The registration URL is correct.
Sorry I didn't know they don't allow foreign people to sing up.
You may get a friend in China with whose mobile number to register it.
The mobile is used only for verification purpose.
@pcan If you wanna buy aliyun, I can help you get one with a little fee.
@cosmicgate They will randomly phone customers to verify...
@Jylee You already aliyun reseller?
@Pzea
No, it is difficult to be their reseller.
I will help him buy it directly from aliyun if anyone needs.