Choose a server by whether you can stand the downtime first, then by whether anyone will run it, and compare prices last
Grade CMedium benefitMoneyLow costSome timeNo willpower
The difference among the 3 tiers is not the price. It is what you have in hand on the day something goes wrong. A large vendor has a filing channel, the qualifications are public, a failure comes with a notice and a compensation clause, and you can find a person. A small provider is half the price, but when it oversells, disappears, or gets cut off by the upstream, you do not even know whom to look for. A static site with no user data is enough on a VPS of a few tens of yuan.
- Cost
- A cloud server from a mainstream cloud vendor is several hundred to several thousand yuan a month. A VPS from a small provider starts at a few tens of yuan a month. A VPS is a small virtual server. Colocation of a dedicated server starts at several thousand yuan a year, and you buy the hardware yourself.
- Benefit
- The difference among the 3 tiers is not the price. It is what you have in hand on the day something goes wrong. A mainstream cloud vendor has a filing channel, the qualifications are public, a failure comes with a notice, the contract has a compensation clause, and when something goes wrong you can find a person. A small provider's price can be half as much, but when it oversells, disappears, or gets cut off by the upstream, you have nobody to appeal to. So before you talk price, check in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology system whether it holds a value-added telecommunications business license. Colocation of a dedicated server pays only when 2 conditions both hold: the bandwidth or the hardware is clearly cheaper, and you have your own people to run it. How to choose: a static site with no user data is enough on the cheapest VPS. If there is user registration and there are transactions, choose a cloud server that can scale and can take snapshot backups, and keep the backups in at least 2 places.
- Notes
- The above is a judgment from experience. There is no literature behind it. The only thing you can actually check is the service provider's license. If you want to save money, save it on the configuration and the bandwidth. Do not save it on the qualification.
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- 作者经验，无直接文献；服务商资质与备案的法定要求见本节第 4 条，日志留存 6 个月和等级保护义务见第 11 节第 16 条