[Beginner’s Guide] A must-read for getting started, popular science on VPS purchase, lines, types, and virtualization technology

When newbies get started with vps hosting, they can read this article first. Will explain some problems that newbies to vps often encounter. At the same time, some tool tutorials will be given to help novices get started quickly;

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VPS Host Buying Guide

Most host providers use the whmcs host sales system, so the purchasing process is similar. Take virmach and tiler movers’ buying guides as examples

The whmcs host sales system commonly used by host providers has a fraud check function, which checks whether there is fraud in the user's registration information. If so, the transaction will be rejected

So when purchasing, try not to use an agent, the registration information should be as true as possible, and ensure that the address, mobile phone number, IP address, and zip code are in the same region

Network line related

What is CN2, CN2 GT, CN2 GIA?

Generally, telecom lines are telecom backbone networks, also called 163 backbone networks; CN2 is telecom's next-generation bearer network, with much higher quality and price than telecom backbone networks; CN2 GT is the global in telecom's CN2 product line For transit products, CN2 GT has its own separate route for international exports to China, but exit 163 is still used to enter mainland China. CN2 GIA is a star product of telecommunications. The line quality is higher than that of CN2 GT, and the price is 1-3 times that of GT. Not only do you have your own independent route when going abroad, but you also have an independent route when you return home.

So, the above line quality rankings are as follows: Telecom backbone network

Introduction to host classification

Virtual host: also called network space, webhosting. It refers to the website space allocated by a server that can host multiple websites. Multiple websites share the IP and computing resources of one server. Generally suitable for building entry-level websites.

VPS: Full name Virtual Private Server, also called vps server, virtual personal server. It refers to a remote server generated through virtualization technology, with independent IP, independent CPU, memory, and disk space. To the user, it is a remote server with an independent IP. Suitable for gamers and advanced webmasters who love to play.

Cloud server: also called cloud host. For users, there is no difference between cloud hosts and vps, but cloud hosts will support advanced features such as flexible expansion, data center virtualization, and on-demand acquisition of computing resources. Like digitalocean, vultr provides cloud hosting.

Dedicated server: English name Dedicated Server. It is a physical server, and the hardware resources CPU, memory, and disk are all physical and generally have higher configurations and more expensive prices

Host testing tool

The one-click testing tool Unix bench tests the comprehensive performance of host CPU, memory, disk and other hardware and software. Similar to benchmarking software such as Master Lu, it will give a vps host performance benchmarking result. Reference: Unix bench host performance test benchmark tutorial

The one-click testing tool zbench has comprehensive test items, including disk IO speed test, download speed test outside mainland China, ping delay test in mainland China, route tracing and other tests. Reference: VPS one-click testing tool zbench, supports Chinese, automatically generates reports

Webmaster Tools->ping test, test the average delay of each node outside mainland China accessing the vps host

ipip->traceroute, test the route tracing results from mainland China to the vps host

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