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CloudCone Black Friday Sale: Limited VPS Discounts Starting at $14.11/Year

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CloudCone is a stable US hosting provider specializing in Los Angeles VPS and dedicated servers. Its VPS infrastructure is based on KVM, with some routes utilizing the Los Angeles CN2 GIA dynamic routing. It offers free DDoS protection and features hourly billing, allowing users to delete or rebuild instances at any time. With this Double 11 promotion, the value for money is exceptional.

Purchase Instructions

Note that you must first register an account at https://cloudcone.com.cn/, then recharge your balance in the backend before purchasing a plan. Payment methods include Alipay and credit cards, with a seven-day no-reason refund policy. For example, if a plan costs $14.9, you need to recharge a balance of at least $15 to place the order.

Double 11 Limited Discount Plans

1.11.20-1

  • 1 vCPU Core
  • 1 GB RAM
  • 20 GB RAID-10 SSD
  • 1 x IPv4 and 3 x IPv6
  • 5 TB Bandwidth

$14.11/year (Original Price: $44.46/year), Purchase Link: https://app.cloudcone.com/compute/1161/create

11.11.20-2

  • 2 vCPU Cores
  • 2 GB RAM
  • 40 GB RAID-10 SSD
  • 1 x IPv4 and 3 x IPv6
  • 5 TB Bandwidth

$16.52/year (Original Price: $106.15/year), Purchase Link: https://app.cloudcone.com/compute/1162/create

11.11.20-3

  • 2 vCPU Cores
  • 3 GB RAM
  • 60 GB RAID-10 SSD
  • 1 x IPv4 and 3 x IPv6
  • 5 TB Bandwidth

$21.07/year (Original Price: $142.76/year), Purchase Link: https://app.cloudcone.com/compute/1163/create

Partial Tests

All plans in this promotion use SSD drives, with average disk I/O reaching 1092.3 MB/s. This I/O performance is quite good, though it may decrease as the number of neighbors increases.

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 I/O Speed(1st run)    : 1.0 GB/s
 I/O Speed(2nd run)    : 1.1 GB/s
 I/O Speed(3rd run)    : 1.1 GB/s
 Average I/O speed     : 1092.3 MB/s
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Download and upload speeds are close to 500Mbps, though upload speeds to China are slightly worse.

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 Node Name        Upload Speed      Download Speed      Latency     
 Speedtest.net    478.51 Mbps       478.48 Mbps         0.32 ms     
 Beijing    CU    373.21 Mbps       486.20 Mbps         180.02 ms   
 Shanghai   CT    1.41 Mbps         484.16 Mbps         174.39 ms   
 Shanghai   CU    10.98 Mbps        486.30 Mbps         180.82 ms 
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Conclusion

I have been using CloudCone for a while. Based on past experience, CloudCone's performance is average, but its stability is decent. Its main advantage is the cost-performance ratio. It is recommended for learning, testing, and experimentation.