CloudCone, a stable hosting provider in the United States, mainly offers Los Angeles VPS and dedicated servers. Their VPS is based on KVM and some regions have the Los Angeles CN2 GIA (dynamic routing) network. They provide free DDoS protection and their unique selling point is hourly billing with the ability to delete and rebuild at any time. With the upcoming Double 11 promotion, they are offering extremely low discounted prices, making them very cost-effective.

Purchase Instructions

Please note that you need to register an account at https://cloudcone.com.cn/ and then top up your balance in the backend before purchasing the corresponding package. They support Alipay and credit card payments, and offer a 7-day refund policy. For example, if the package price is $14.9, you need to top up a balance of $15 or more to place an order.

Double 11 Limited Discount Packages

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/YR), 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/YR), 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/YR), purchase link: https://app.cloudcone.com/compute/1163/create

Performance Testing

These promotions all use SSD disks, with an average disk I/O speed of 1092.3 MB/s, which is quite good. However, it remains to be seen whether the I/O speed will gradually 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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The maximum download and upload speeds are both around 500 Mbps, but the upload speed in China is 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 

Conclusion

xiaoz has been using CloudCone's servers for a while, and based on past experience, their performance is average but their stability is decent. The main advantage is their cost-effectiveness. It is recommended for learning and testing purposes.

• Speed test: http://la.lg.cloudc.one/100MB.test
• CloudCone official website: https://cloudcone.com.cn/