CloudCone is an American VPS host and a sub-brand of quadcone, which was established in 2012. The VPS hosting currently provided is in the MC computer room in Los Angeles, USA. The advantage of CloudCone's VPS host is that it is cheap. The cheapest VPS host is 512MB memory and 10GB hard drive for $2.67, and it is charged on a timely basis and can be deleted at any time. CloudCone's billing method is similar to Linode and DigitalOcean. You need to recharge the account before creating a VPS host. However, if you don't want to use the VPS, you can delete it at any time. The fee is calculated based on the hours of use of the VPS host. This billing method is suitable for those who It is quite advantageous for people who want to use VPS temporarily for testing. This article will briefly share the performance and speed evaluation of CloudCone VPS hosts. If you want to compare more VPS hosts, you can check out a special page I made: VPS host ranking list. In addition, if you have a strong need for speed You can consider CN2 VPS hosting, see: Summary of CN2 line VPS hosting providers and computer rooms. For more information about VPS hosting and website building resources, you may be interested in:

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1. CloudCone account registration

Official website:
  1. HTTPS://cloud cone.com/
First go to the official website to register a CloudCone account. Then enter CloudCone's financial center, and then you can see that you can use Paypal or Alipay to recharge. Select Alipay to jump to the Alipay payment interface. CloudCone requires you to recharge before you can activate VPS. After the recharge is completed, you can see the balance of your CloudCone account.

2. Open VPS with CloudCone

Click computer, then select the configuration of your VPS host, including memory size, hard disk, etc., then select your VPS host operating system, set an FQDN, and finally click to activate. (Click to enlarge) CloudCone currently provides a Linux operating system, but no Windows operating system. This is the management panel of CloudCone VPS host. Here you can reinstall the system, upgrade VPS, restart and shut down, delete VPS, etc. (Click to enlarge)

3. CloudCone VPS performance

This is the CPU and memory configuration information of the 512MB CloudCone VPS purchased by wzfou.com. The IO read and write speed is only 200MB/s, which is considered slow. This is the UnixBench performance benchmark result of CloudCone VPS. The VPS with 512MB memory scored around 900, which is pretty good. (Click to enlarge)

4. CloudCone VPS speed

This is a test of the bandwidth of the CloudCone VPS computer room. Both upload and download bandwidth are very sufficient. This is the speed of wzfou.com local telecommunications uploading files to the CloudCone VPS server, which is maintained at 140KB/s. This is the speed at which CloudCone VPS downloads files to the local computer. Telecom accesses CloudCone VPS through direct connection. China Unicom’s access to CloudCone VPS is also a direct connection. Use webmaster tools to test the Ping response time of CloudCone VPS in China. It is basically around 250, which is normal.

5. Summary

CloudCone VPS hosting is cheap and charged on a timely basis. If you don’t need it, you will be billed if you delete it. This is good for friends who need VPS hosting temporarily. Of course, because CloudCone VPS is still a newly established VPS hosting provider, we still need to continue to observe the stability. The lowest monthly payment for CloudCone VPS host is about US$2.6, which can be said to be one of the few VPSs with a monthly payment of US$2. Currently, the monthly payment for VPS hosts provided by Vultr VPS, Classic VPS, and Host1plus is about US$2-3. Interested friends can try it.

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