Tencent Cloud vs. Alibaba Cloud: Comparing Servers at 99–199 Yuan per Year

For context, I bought both😏

Both renew at the same price, so they're great deals if you need them

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Regions and Networking

Tencent Cloud

1. Both the 99 and 199 plans are available only in mainland China

2. Ping latency within mainland China is, of course, fine

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Alibaba Cloud

The 99 plan is limited to mainland China, while the 199 plan offers regions worldwide

Ping latency is shown below (Shanghai in the first image, Singapore in the second):

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Disk Speed

Tencent Cloud

Alibaba Cloud

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Bandwidth and Data Transfer

Tencent Cloud

The 99 plan has 4M bandwidth, and the 199 plan has 6M, with data transfer limits of 300G and 600G respectively. These reset monthly. That may not look like much, but most users won't use it all

Alibaba Cloud

The 99 plan has 3M bandwidth, and the 199 plan has 5M, with unlimited data transfer

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My Recommendations

1. For moderate traffic, such as running a waf or monitoring service, I recommend Tencent Cloud. Both disk speed and bandwidth are slightly higher
2. If you plan to serve static files that are requested very frequently, I recommend Alibaba Cloud. Tencent Cloud's data transfer overage fees are expensive: 0.8 yuan/G in mainland China. Alibaba Cloud's disk speed is also sufficient for small files

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Final Thoughts

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