Alibaba Cloud Account Purchase: Why Do Personal Blogs Build the Preferred "Shared" Cloud Server?
As an architect who has been deeply engaged in the field of cloud architecture for many years, and also an SEO long blogger who realizes by traffic and weight, I often receive private letters from readers:
"Blogger, I want to build a personal blog, what kind of server should I buy? Computational, general-purpose or shared?" "I heard that the performance of shared servers is unstable, will it affect SEO rankings?"
Here, I can directly give a pragmatic and certain conclusion:
For the vast majority of individual webmasters, technical bloggers or independent content creators, the first choice for personal blog building is definitely "shared" (such as Aliyun Economic E instance)!
This is not only a simple technology selection, but also a fusion
The SEO Growth Model
with
FinOps (Cloud Financial Governance)
The perfect business decision.
Many novice webmasters at the beginning of the station, because of lack of experience or misled by unscrupulous tutorials, blindly pursue "enterprise-class exclusive performance", and choose high-specification computing (C series) or general-purpose (G series) servers as soon as they come up. The result is often that the high monthly server bill gives itself a blow before the website opens.
In this article, I will deeply disassemble why the "shared" server is the golden choice for personal blogs from the three dimensions of architecture design, SEO actual combat and budget control, and teach you how to do it efficiently.
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With the configuration, save every point of unnecessary expenses.
1. the tech fog: What is a "shared" server?
In the ECS instance family of Alibaba Cloud, servers are mainly divided into two camps:
Enterprise-level instances
(exclusive) and
Shared Instance
(e. g. economy e instance, s6 instance, etc.).
Many novices get scared when they hear the word "sharing", thinking that they are sharing data or sharing systems with others. In fact, the "sharing" here refers
Unbound scheduling of physical CPU resources
.
Enterprise instance: Your vCPU is strictly bound to the hyper-threading of the underlying physical CPU, with 100 percent exclusive and stable computing power at all times.
Shared instances: Each vCPU is randomly assigned to any idle physical CPU hyper-thread. The vCPUs of multiple instances share the underlying computing resources at the physical level.
Architect's perspective: Shared instances do not have the 100 percent "performance SLA guarantee" of enterprise instances, but they have full availability SLA guarantees. This means that it will not go down for no reason, but the computing performance may fluctuate slightly when the underlying physical machine is extremely busy. And for personal blog this light load of the business, this fluctuation is almost completely imperceptible.
2. why personal blog build preferred sharing type?
As a blogger who takes into account both technology and traffic, I suggest that you choose the sharing type for the following three core reasons:
1. Fit personally
"Tidal Flow" Characteristics of Blogs
Personal blogs, technical documents or independent sites, their access traffic is often extremely "bursty" and "tidal". Most of the time, the server's CPU utilization is typically in the very low range of $5\%-15\%$.
Only when search engine spiders (such as Googlebot, Baidubot) come to crawl, or you write a popular article to bring short-term traffic, the CPU will occasionally soar.
Buying expensive exclusive servers means that you are paying for idle CPU power more than 90% of the time every day. the shared type (such as the economical e-instance) perfectly covers this lightweight application scenario at the most economical cost.
2. The price/performance ratio is extremely shocking, and the renewal fee will not increase in price.
Based on the current Alibaba Cloud main push
economy e instance
(2-core 2G configuration) For example, with the official developer support policy, the annual cost is even as low as 99 yuan.
Compared with enterprise-level instances that cost thousands of dollars a year, shared instances directly help webmasters
Sunk costs in the early stages of the business have been reduced by more than 90%
. This budget can be used to buy a better top-level domain name, or put into the output of SEO quality content.
3. The current hardware performance has long been "excess"
Today's shared servers (e. g., e-instances) are strongly used at the bottom.
Intel® Xeon® Platinum (Scalable Processor)
, and the whole series comes standard
I/O optimization
.
Coordination
ESSD Entry
or
PL0 Enhanced Solid State Disk
Its sequential reading and writing speed and throughput have far exceeded the virtual host of the early mechanical hard disk era. Even a WordPress blog that carries tens of thousands of IP per day is completely comfortable.
3. from the perspective of SEO: shared server will affect the website ranking?
This is the webmaster's most concerned about the problem. SEO circle circulating a word: "the server is slow, SEO all finished." So, will shared servers slow down the loading speed of websites and be punished by Google or Baidu?
As a webmaster proficient in SEO, I can clearly tell you:
As long as the architecture is optimized properly, the shared server will not only not affect SEO, but also run out of Core Web Vitals (core web index) close to full marks!
When search engines (especially Google) evaluate website speed, the core look is
TTFB (first byte time)
and
LCP (Maximum Content Rendering Time)
. These indicators are actually only 30% affected by the physical performance of the server, and the remaining 70% depends on the webmaster's
Architecture Optimization Capability
.
If you use a shared server to build a station, you can squeeze its performance dry through the following "three axes" to make SEO effect soar:
optimization dimension
Specific strategies
SEO Benefits
Static and Dynamic Separation
Blog images, CSS, and JS scripts are all hosted in Alibaba Cloud OSS and CDN acceleration is enabled.
The server only processes lightweight HTML text, TTFB drops to less than 100ms, and crawlers crawl at extreme speed.
Application Layer Cache
Use Nginx to enable FastCGI caching, or configure Redis object caching and WP Super Cache plug-in in the WordPress.
The vast majority of dynamic pages are directly converted into static cache in memory, completely eliminating the overhead of CPU checking the database, even if the CPU is shared, it does not affect the response speed at all.
Database optimization
Periodic cleanup of system redundant revisions, OPTIMIZE optimization of database tables, and indexing of core fields.
Reduce query execution time and avoid CPU surge caused by slow query accumulation.
Through this lightweight architecture of memory and calculation separation and memory cache, even the lowest 2-core 2G shared instance can easily reach millisecond page opening speed, which makes search engine crawlers fondle admiringly.
4. Pit Avoidance Guide: How to Buy an Alibaba Cloud Account and Save Money?
See here, if you are ready to start your first personal blog, then before you start, there are a few about
Purchase with an Alibaba Cloud account
The "dark pit" selected with the server needs to be shared with you as a warning:
1. Standardize Alibaba Cloud account purchase and real-name authentication
First of all, it is recommended that you go to the official website of Aliyun, register and complete a
Purchase with an Alibaba Cloud account
with real name authentication.
Avoid pit tips: do not through informal channels to buy the so-called "real name-free account" or "second-hand three-party account". This kind of account not only cannot obtain the official security guarantee (it is extremely easy to be banned due to wind control), but also when the website needs to carry out ICP filing (just needed for the establishment of domestic servers), the filing will fail due to the discrepancy of the account subject information, which is not worth the loss.
2. Recognize the privilege of new customers and the rule of "same price for renewal"
Log in to your newly registered
Purchase with an Alibaba Cloud account
For ECS instances, you must go to the "Activity Center" or "Developer Zone" to find packages with special offers for new customers.
For example, it is currently available for individual developers.
2-core 2G economy e example
Not only is the first purchase price cheap (e. g. 99 yuan/year), but many packages also support "renewal without price increase".
Webmaster's pain point: many cloudy manufacturers like to play the routine of "10% discount in the first year and original price in the next year". in the first year, the renewal fee will be changed to 800 yuan in the second year, forcing webmasters to move websites frequently. Therefore, you must clearly see the renewal rules when purchasing, and select a shared instance that supports low-cost and long-term renewal.
3. Regional selection is exquisite (no filing vs domestic nodes)
Select a region (Region
), according to your SEO target market to decide:
Target Users in China: Select the domestic nodes in East China, North China, or South China (such as Hangzhou, Beijing, and Shenzhen). The speed is the fastest, but you need to use the real-name authentication Alibaba Cloud account to submit the website ICP filing.
Do not want to record/rush to go online: you can choose a lightweight application server or shared ECS in Hong Kong, China. The filing process is eliminated, and thanks to Aliyun's high-quality CN2 dedicated network, domestic access is still very smooth.
5. summary: pragmatic, is the webmaster's most precious quality
In today's highly mature cloud computing infrastructure, good architects and webmasters never blindly pile up hardware.
The core competitiveness of personal blog is always
High quality continuous content output
and also
Accurate SEO structure optimization
. The most pragmatic and clever way to save expensive hardware costs, open your webmaster with a cost-effective Alibaba Cloud shared instance (such as an economical E instance), and use dynamic and static separation and memory caching to compensate for the shared attributes of hardware.
Now, you might as well log in to your
Purchase with an Alibaba Cloud account
Page, start your journey to the cloud. Use the cost of a movie ticket to carry the weight of your words and your future traffic dreams.
