Double 11 is coming, and all the companies are promoting and doing activities. While others are buying various luxury goods, we are buying software and servers 😂. Currently, all major cloud providers are running promotions. Let me share the Huawei Cloud promotion with you.

Cloud Server Discounts

Below are some screenshots of Huawei Cloud's Double 11 products. You can see that the 1-core 2GB Cloud YAO server is only 88 yuan/year, and it's available for purchase at 9 am every day. In addition, .top domain names are only 1 yuan for the first year.

Activity Link: https://activity.huaweicloud.com/

Activity Rules

Target Audience: Only new users who have completed registration and real-name authentication on the Huawei Cloud official website and have never purchased Huawei Cloud resources before (customer level is V0) can make purchases. Activity Period: October 28, 2020, to November 30, 2020. Purchase Instructions: (1) Each new user can only purchase 1 exclusive package. Each user can only purchase 1 1-core 2GB server per day, available at 9 am on a first-come, first-served basis. Each user can purchase a maximum of 3 exclusive cloud servers. The purchase quantity for other products is subject to the purchase page. (2) Same User Rules: The same user refers to the actual same user based on different Huawei Cloud accounts' registration, login, and usage-related information. Huawei Cloud determines this based on the same identification number (such as ID card number/passport ID/overseas driver's license ID/enterprise unique identification number), same mobile number, same device, same IP address, etc. (3) Package Configuration: a. Each cloud server comes with 1 public IP, a 40GB high IO system disk for Cloud YAO servers, and a 40GB general SSD system disk for C6/C6s cloud servers. The data disk is a general SSD, and the configuration includes dynamic BGP bandwidth. b. Overseas cloud servers are S6 models, and system reinstallation does not support switching between Linux and Windows. (4) Renewal and Modification: The promotional price only applies to packages purchased on the activity page. For renewal or modification of packages (including upgrades and downgrades), the current catalog price applies. The promotional price does not apply in this scenario. Before choosing to upgrade or downgrade a product with a package cycle, please refer to the specific scenarios or explanations. For more information, please read the "Change Resource Fee Description". Enterprise Host Security Gift Mechanism: Users who purchase any specifications of cloud servers will receive the corresponding duration of the Enterprise Host Security Basic Edition for free. For specific product information, please refer to "Enterprise Host Security HSS". To ensure fairness and justice of the activity, Huawei Cloud reserves the right to revoke the qualification to use the package for users who engage in malicious activities to obtain resources (where "malicious" refers to actions that disrupt the fairness of the activity, such as abnormal registration of accounts to obtain resources) or engage in illegal activities using resources. All Huawei Cloud registered users participating in this activity have acknowledged and agreed to comply with the "Huawei Cloud User Agreement," "Privacy Policy Statement," and "Acceptable Use Policy."

### Cloud YAO Server I/O Test

During the last Huawei Cloud promotion, Xiaoz happened to purchase a Huawei Cloud YAO server and ran a test using `bench.sh` for everyone's reference:

Configuration Information (1 core, 1GB memory):

```bash
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 CPU Model             : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6278C CPU @ 2.60GHz
 CPU Cores             : 1
 CPU Frequency         : 2600.000 MHz
 CPU Cache             : 36608 KB
 Total Disk            : 40.0 GB (3.1 GB Used)
 Total Mem             : 990 MB (167 MB Used)
 Total Swap            : 0 MB (0 MB Used)
 System uptime         : 9 days, 10 hours 4 minutes
 Load average          : 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
 OS                    : CentOS 7.8.2003
 Arch                  : x86_64 (64 Bit)
 Kernel                : 3.10.0-1127.19.1.el7.x86_64
 TCP CC                : cubic
 Virtualization        : KVM
 Organization          : AS58519 Cloud Computing Corporation
 Location              : Quanzhou / CN
 Region                : Fujian
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The average disk I/O is 112.7 MB/s, which is not high but moderate.

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 I/O Speed(1st run)    : 122 MB/s
 I/O Speed(2nd run)    : 108 MB/s
 I/O Speed(3rd run)    : 108 MB/s
 Average I/O speed     : 112.7 MB/s
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The server only purchased 1 Mbps bandwidth, so the upload speed is heavily limited. However, the download speed can reach around 100 Mbps. I didn't study the documentation carefully, but I guess the upload and download bandwidth ratio is 1:10. Here are the results:

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 Node Name        Upload Speed      Download Speed      Latency     
 Speedtest.net    1.15 Mbps         123.63 Mbps         28.16 ms    
 Beijing    CU    0.57 Mbps         161.92 Mbps         52.76 ms    
 Shanghai   CT    0.75 Mbps         172.12 Mbps         37.68 ms    
 Shanghai   CU    1.16 Mbps         160.88 Mbps         29.73 ms    
 Guangzhou  CT    0.65 Mbps         148.03 Mbps         41.37 ms 

Conclusion

In addition to server products, there are also promotions for databases, CDN, and other products. If you are interested, you can visit the activity link: https://activity.huaweicloud.com/ for more information.