Seven considerations for choosing a personal VM

For most webmasters, virtual hosts are still the first choice. Although VPS and servers are better than virtual hosts, the cost of VPS and servers is higher and the maintenance cost is not low; there are also many types of virtual hosts, whether large space, high speed, dual-line, single-line, or independent IP addresses, which naturally appeal to the webmaster. The following is a brief introduction of some issues that should be considered when selecting a virtual host based on your actual experience.

1. Foreign hosts? Domestic hosts?

The first problem encountered when selecting a VM is a foreign host or a domestic host. Although the foreign host has advantages in capacity, cost effectiveness, and independent IP address, the foreign host is very strict in copyright management, at the same time, access to foreign hosts in China is slow, and IP addresses are occasionally blocked, which has a great impact on the use of foreign host websites. As for hosts in China, standby | case | is a difficult problem. The cost-effectiveness is not high enough, but the speed is very good. There are few copyright disputes, which may be more friendly to search engines. If you are planning to build a website for a long time and want a better user experience, we recommend that you select a host in China.

Ii. Restrict IIS? CPU? Traffic?

Since it is a virtual host, there will be some restrictions. Now, both foreign and domestic virtual hosts will be limited, the restriction option is usually IIS or CPU or traffic. So what virtual hosts do you choose to restrict? In fact, these three factors affect each other, and the same restriction will also limit, such as limiting the CPU, so the traffic cannot be high, the ISS cannot be high, and the CPU will naturally be high; however, if it is a static website, it will be better to limit the CPU usage. We recommend that you restrict IIS in the forum. You can consider limiting the traffic, the advantage of CPU restriction is that accessing static pages does not occupy a large amount of CPU.

3. Space and database size?

In comparison, the space of foreign hosts will be larger and cheaper, but we have already mentioned this issue. Here we will mainly talk about how to choose the space and database size of virtual hosts. In fact, there are still many virtual host service providers in China. The size of space and database size provided by each service provider are different. If it is a small website that updates dozens of articles every day, so we can use a database with dozens of MB of 1 GB space without looking at the attractive space. In fact, many people may not be able to use it. Therefore, instead of choosing a large space, it is better to choose a small space with a higher speed, in this way, the user experience of the website will be better.

4. Dual lines? Single line? Multiline?

For webmasters in China, the single-line, dual-line, and multi-line servers must be selected. The price of Dual-line servers is more expensive than that of single-line servers, it is mainly connected to campus networks and mobile networks, so it is more expensive than dual-line networks. For small websites, you can view the traffic source through the background. If you are a netizen in the telecom region, select China Telecom. If the website has not yet been set up, we recommend that you select a single line with a good speed in the early stage. The host speed in the eastern coastal area will be better. If you are targeting large websites nationwide, we recommend that you select a BGP server room, and the access speed across the country is acceptable.

5. Independent IP address? Shared IP address?

For hosts outside China, it may be easy to buy an independent IP host. After all, there are more IP addresses allocated outside China, so you can buy an independent IP host at several hundred yuan. For domestic hosts, currently, the price of a 1g independent IP host is about 800 yuan, while that of a 1g shared IP host is about 350 yuan. Compared with the shared IP address, the advantage of the independent IP address may be that the search engine will recognize this website more. Although it is not proven, we can see that the high-weight websites are all independent IP addresses, although the virtual hosts with shared IP addresses can withstand tens of thousands of IP addresses, the reality is that few websites with shared IP addresses have very high traffic.

6. Space Environment and permissions?

The virtual host environments and permissions provided by different space providers are different. For example, if the virtual host is a proxy Space Provider, few permissions are provided. For example, some do not support custom error pages, you can also contact Customer Service for unzipping or unzipping, or bind a domain name to a subdirectory. You are advised to select a virtual host based on your actual needs. Generally, if you are a top-level service provider, the provided virtual host will be more expensive, and the permissions of the virtual host will be improved.

7. What is the monthly payment? What is the annual pay?

Currently, many space providers have provided monthly, quarterly, and yearly space payment options, so you can choose more. If you are not familiar with the virtual host of a space provider, you can try to pay for the space by month to check the space speed. If the space speed is good, you can purchase a host for another year. If the speed is bad, you can leave. This is mainly because the space merchants do not have the habit of refund. As long as you buy a refund, you do not expect a full refund. In most cases, you cannot even get a refund.

This is my experience in purchasing virtual hosts. It is not very professional, mainly in text, and I hope it will be helpful to my personal webmaster who buys virtual hosts. The key to choosing a virtual host is to meet the requirements of the host, speed, stability, permissions, and cost-effectiveness are all worth considering.