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Datacenter Countries

The selected providers have datacenters in the following countries.

Alibaba Cloud
Australia
China
Germany
India
Indonesia
Japan
Malaysia
Philippines
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
South Korea
Thailand
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States

Features and Usability

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Alibaba Cloud
Hourly Billing  Mixed
DDOS Protection  Yes
Backups  Yes
Control Panel  Custom
SSH Keys Setup  Yes
Total Number of Datacenters  24
Number of Datacenter Continents  4
Monitoring Charts  Yes
Admin REST API  Yes
Upgrade VPS from admin console  Yes
Mobile Friendly UI  No
Reverse DNS  No
Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit cards, Paypal, Alipay
Hidden CPU Model  No
Affiliate Program  Yes
IPv6 support  No
Firewall  Yes
Shelving  No

Extra Services

Those services are offered by providers independently of their cloud servers.

Alibaba Cloud
Backups  -  Instance backups or snapshots
Block storage  -  Allocate storage volumes independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice
Object storage  -  Data storage for objects, individual files with API access
Load balancer  -  Distribute traffic across set of instances
Floating IP addresses  -  Allocate IP addresses independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice
Team Management  -  Management of users who are authorized to handle resources in your account
Managed databases  -  Managed databases such as MySQL, Postgresql, Aurora, ...
Serverless  -  Deploy code as functions and let the provider manage where the code runs
DDoS protection  -  Distributed Denial of Service protection
Kubernetes  -  Management of Docker containers
GPU instances  -  GPU instances to run your AI workload
Private network  -  Use private IP addresses to communicate between your own instances at this provider

Stengths & Weaknesses

Strengths Weaknesses
Alibaba Cloud
  • Numerous datacenter locations.
  • Large catalog of cloud services.
  • Varying pricing depending on location.
  • Complex, hard to use UI.

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