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How to Select Cloud Servers Best Suited to Your Needs

HUAWEI CLOUD Dec 01, 2020
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Cloud is now standard as more enterprises start to build and deploy on the cloud. Compared with traditional physical servers, cloud servers are easier to deploy, use, and manage, and can save money for enterprises in the long run. So, how should enterprises choose cloud servers that can deliver the performance they need but are also well within their budget?

Cloud is now standard as more enterprises start to build and deploy on the cloud. Compared with traditional physical servers, cloud servers are easier to deploy, use, and manage, and can save money for enterprises in the long run. So, how should enterprises choose cloud servers that can deliver the performance they need but are also well within their budget?

Mainstream cloud service providers like AWS, Azure, and HUAWEI CLOUD all offer cloud servers of various models and specifications, and each one of them has unique strengths in different areas.

To help you better understand the cloud servers that HUAWEI CLOUD offers, we have launched a Year-End Sales Carnival from November 5 to December 10, during which you can find great bargains on some of our hottest cloud server models. For new users and enterprise users, we offer multiple discounts and privileges. They include:

- 1U1G Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) at $1 USD for new users, available in limited quantities.
- 50% off on multiple cloud server models.
- Extra discounts on cloud servers for enterprise users.



Meet Three of HUAWEI CLOUD's Hottest Cloud Servers
1. C6: Excellent performance for heavy-duty applications
1) Extraordinary network throughput over 10 million PPS, made possible with Huawei's in-house high-performance iNICs, integrated flowtable offloading, Virtio-Direct, seamless hot upgrade, and more software-based technologies
2) Basic frequency: 3.0 GHz; turbo frequency: 3.4 GHz; maximum intranet bandwidth: 40 Gbit/s, with much lower intranet latency; and RAM frequency: 2,933 MHz, highest in the industry, significantly improving performance for heavy-duty applications.
3) Ultra-high I/O EVS disks, up to 33,000 IOPS and 350 MB/s throughput, allowing for faster reads and writes and larger storage bandwidth
Typical Applications
1) E-commerce — 40 Gbit/s intranet bandwidth, doubled network speed. With significantly reduced network latency, your website can deliver a better shopping experience than your competition, and your customers can complete their purchases faster.
2) Video streaming — The 10-million PPS network throughput allows tens of millions of users to interact smoothly online. You don't need as large a server cluster for your streaming service.
3) Social media and short video — With our high-performance network middleware, a Twitter-like social platform can handle hundreds of millions of forwards and comments in one second, and a short video platform can allow tens of thousands of users to upload videos within the same second.
4) Big data applications for government services — Ultra-high I/O EVS disks offer up to 33,000 IOPS and up to 350 MB/s of throughput, supporting high-performance sequential reads/writes for the ultra-large datasets of government systems.

2.C6s: Performance for the price, ideal for enterprise OA applications
1) Basic frequency: 2.6 GHz; turbo frequency: 3.5 GHz; and RAM frequency: 2,922 MHz
2) General-purpose SSDs, up to 4-fold concurrency, 20% higher than the competition
3) Stable computing performance, less than 5% fluctuation

Typical Applications
1) Enterprise applications for digital transformation
Enterprises need flexible, convenient, and cost-effective cloud workspace solutions. C6s ECSs offer an ideal choice for enterprises to deploy their OA, CRM, ERP, and financial systems on the cloud, and without straining their IT budget.
2) Games - excellent performance and stability
Multiplayer games, especially combat games, have a special focus on player interaction. To deliver a smooth, immersive experience, the games need to handle a lot of computing and rendering, and mobility and combat packages in large quantities need to be broadcast over the network during the games.
A C6s ECS with 32 vCPUs provides a maximum intranet bandwidth of 15 Gbit/s and 4.5 million PPS, meeting the compute and network capacity needs of such games.
3. S6: An Ideal choice for the light- or medium-load SME applications
Compared with S3, another hot cloud server model with exactly the same monthly rate, S6 ECSs offer:
1) 15% faster CPUs
2) 150% higher PPS in network throughput
3) 80% more intranet bandwidth

Typical Applications
1) Enterprise applications — S6 ECSs provide a reliable computing environment for the applications of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that have a moderate load.
2) Applications of individual developers — S6 ECSs can handle moderate bursts in load over short periods of time, such as those in a development or testing environment or a database with moderate performance requirements.