Alibaba Cloud is a Chinese cloud computing giant which offers an array of high performance business-oriented cloud services: data storage, relational databases, big data processing, content delivery networks and more.
The range offers many of the same products as Amazon Web Services (there’s a comparison here). But amongst all the enterprise-only services, the company does provide some more accessible products, including domain registration and various forms of web hosting.
The regular hosting plan seems a little limited, with only 5GB disk space, a single 1GB MySQL 5.6 database and 1,000 concurrent connections (the website suggests it’s suitable for up to 30,000 visits a month.) Bandwidth is theoretically limited to 50GB. Right now, that’s not being applied as extra traffic is free of charge, but this could change at any time.
The plan doesn’t include cPanel or any simple one-click installer, either. Initially you’ll have to make do with Alibaba Cloud’s own custom management console.
Dig into the details, though, and you’ll notice some plus points. Container technology ensures websites are isolated from each other and a problem in one site can’t bring the server down. Servers are configured to ensure …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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