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Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) 1Core 1GB 40GB SSD 1TB Xfer $30 for a whole year - NO China Locations
Received this email from Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun), seems like an okay price for the specs and locations.
1 CPU Core of E5 2682 v4 1GB DDR4 Ram 40GB SSD Cloud Disk 1TB Data Transfer Available in: Silicon Valley (US West) Virginia (US East) Frankfurt (EU Central) Sydney (Australia) $30 for a whole year, I am not sure what this means, probably 1st year only.
https://intl.aliyun.com/campaign/ecs-ssd-cloud-server
Some TOS stuff:
- This promotion is applicable for registered users of Alibaba Cloud. - This promotion applies to ECS instances deployed in US West, US East, EU Central and Australia regions. - This promotional offer cannot be used in conjunction with other special offers or coupons. - This promotion is only applicable to subscription orders, not renewal orders. - This promotion is limited to 10 orders per user, with 1 instance per order. Each user can purchase up to 10 instances. - If an individual user has multiple accounts, only one account is eligible to participate. - This promotion is valid until August 19, 2017.
Thoughts?
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Offer is fine, however, arubacloud offers almost the same for 1 euro/month. so 12 euro/year is far less than this.
Not in australia kiddo.
It's not that good anymore. I don't know where these servers are exactly located (in terms of DC's) but Arubas "good" DC's (meaning basically none of their own) are now priced at at least 4,99€ per month for new registrations, resulting in ~60€ per year.
Also, they don't offer US or even Australia locations.
(PS: I got one at Aruba as well, so this is not due to don't like them)
Would be interesting about the location of Frankfurt DC.
1st year only.
Well, then I can not say much because it is quite some time since I have last used them. But I used to have 4-5 virtual machines with them and all worked just fine.
From my experience their disk I/O sucks, hanging around 20-30 MB/s. Don't buy it if that is an issue to you.
Also, Aliyun has some pre-built 'Security/Monitoring Software' installed in all their linux distributions. I'd recommend everyone get rid of it before you put the vm into production. Looks like a backdoor to me.
Good point, I noticed it when I had my trial VPS with them, didn't care too much as I wasn't running anything worth spying on the VM.
They ask you when you deploy if you want to have it installed or not.
I smell WSS clone in this thread
Price is not the only factor.
When I used Aruba cloud, they were not bad as well. Service was good considering the price of 1 Euro.
Censorship. Censorship. Censorship.
1 YEAR is a long time - -...Dont worry you will get a better price next year for sure - -...Any way they only caculate outbound traffic ..So the price is OK