Things we encountered on the way to choose VPS/server

In the past two years or so, Snail has rarely released promotions for VPS hosting companies. Even if it does, it is only for businesses that have been using it or are relatively familiar with it. For the activities of many new merchants or some old merchants, I usually follow some blog sites next door. Firstly, there are too many merchants and they have no actual experience and sometimes they are afraid to share. Secondly, most users have their own judgment and selection ability and do not need to recommend. Thirdly, each user of any service provider has different project uses and requirements. We need to experience it ourselves to know whether it is good or bad.

As our users, no matter how fierce the competition in the industry is today, we can only receive the best value for money by maintaining a normal selection mentality. In less than a month, we will usher in the most intensive e-commerce promotion event of the year. I believe that all merchants and users are well prepared. Today, Snail suddenly had a whim and talked about the things he encountered on the way to choose VPS and servers.

First, how to treat discount review websites

Many of our netizens know and choose VPS hosts from information on forums and discount review blog websites. The source of this type of website information also comes from merchants’ email subscription channels, as well as several foreign forums. Whether we bloggers directly translate and move it back, or we personally purchase, evaluate and experience it, we users must have our own discernment when choosing.

In the early years, when I chose a merchant, I made a tentative choice based on the merchant's brand, operating hours, and word-of-mouth reviews from surrounding netizens. For other evaluation data, I only take a look at it, including the line and speed. The most important thing is what I think of this merchant after experiencing it. If I feel it is not good after the test, I will not renew it. If I think it is okay, I may choose a little more in the future. long time.

Second, how to view cheap VPS service providers

If we played VPS and servers earlier, in the early years, we had to stay up late to get a 128MB or 256MB memory VPS that paid about US$15 per year. Nowadays, there are many merchants who pay less than US$10 per year. Firstly, there is the factor of hardware cost reduction, and secondly, there is the factor of merchant competition. But for us users, we need to look at it rationally.

Snail has also written an article before: "A brief discussion on choosing a VPS hosting provider and the expectations and reality of cheap VPS hosting solutions". We can weigh it ourselves. If a cheap VPS machine costs only three to five US dollars, and the configuration and speed must be perfect, it is impossible from a cost perspective. What’s more, we still need to provide work orders and operation and maintenance services. Today’s labor costs are still relatively high. . Of course, it’s not that more expensive is better. It mainly depends on the overall cost-effectiveness of the merchant and the product, because some merchants’ products are extremely expensive, but their performance is mediocre.

Third, how to view merchant services

When Snail used Linode in the early years, you could usually get a reply within 15 minutes after submitting a work order. Nowadays, it sometimes takes several hours to get a reply. Some merchants need 24 hours or even up to 72 hours to receive a response after submitting a work order. Such a time difference is indeed difficult to accept for most of our users in mainland China who want to solve the problem in a timely manner. (Because we are used to instant messaging to solve problems)

Most overseas service providers submit work orders to solve problems. Even most of the merchants are individuals. Selling hosts is just a hobby. Processing work orders is either outsourced to a third party, or you need to wait for him to finish get off work. Only then do you solve the problem. Whether it is abroad or in mainland China, if we really need more work order services, then we need to screen among such merchants. If we only want the server to be stable and we can solve problems by ourselves, then it doesn't matter.

Fourth, how to see merchants’ promotions

Nowadays, foreigners are also smart. Maybe they are fake foreign service providers. Every weekend and holiday, various promotional activities are pushed out by email. They are limited to 24 hours or 72 hours. In fact, they repeat themselves after a few days. Including the following Halloween, Double Eleven, Black Friday, Double Twelve, etc., we will see various routine activities of merchants.

If we really need a product, Snail recommends paying attention to merchants that we commonly use and use easily. If there are activities worth choosing, go and buy them. If you don’t need them, don’t look at them. Sometimes after seeing too many promotions, I feel entangled and feel uncomfortable if I don’t buy. In the past, I attributed it to a disease, and I just closed the window and didn't look at it.

Fifth, what exactly was said

The snail talked nonsense above, and it felt like he didn’t even know what he was talking about. Some friends must have read it and felt that what they said was equivalent to not saying anything. Indeed, I feel that way too. To sum up the truth directly, if you look at any merchant activities and reviews, just take a look. The merchants can prepare two or three of them themselves. There is no need to try all merchants, and there is no need to waste more time on choosing merchants.

Don’t feel that you will lose money if you haven’t caught up with merchant activities. It’s almost enough. There is no benefit or deception. Merchants will always trick our users. We need to spend less time, cost and return on choosing merchants. It's proportional. More time needs to be spent on actual projects.

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