Alibaba Cloud VPS Provider Review
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Alibaba Cloud, founded in 2009, is a global leader in cloud computing and artificial intelligence, providing services to thousands of enterprises, developers, and governments organizations in more than 200 countries and regions
Alibaba Cloud hosts a 'Simple Application Server' product which we will be using to perform our tests. It's similar to AWS LightSail but servers need to be pre-paid for a month in advance.
Features
| Snapshots | yes |
|---|---|
| Custom ISOs | no |
| Startup Scripts | no |
| SSH Keys | yes |
| Backups | no |
| Block Storage | yes |
| Object Storage | yes |
| Public API | no |
| Teams | no |
| DNS | no |
|---|---|
| Reserved Ips | no |
| Firewall | yes |
| Private Networking | yes |
| Load Balancers | yes |
| Managed Databases | yes |
| Server Monitoring | yes |
Plans
| Name | CPUs | RAM | DISK | Bandwidth | Price (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simple Application Server 1cpu 2gb | 1 vCPU | 2 GB | 50 GB | 2000 GB | $4.80 |
| Simple Application Server 1cpu 1gb | 1 vCPU | 1 GB | 25 GB | 1000 GB | $3.40 |