How To Buy Tencent Cloud Server In Taiwan? Cost Details And Billing Method Analysis

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Preparation for purchasing Tencent Cloud Server in Taiwan

· Registration and real-name authentication: Use mobile phone + ID to complete real-name authentication of Tencent Cloud account;
· Select the computer room location: select "Taiwan (Taipei)" or the nearest Asia-Pacific computer room to reduce latency;
· Determine the business type: static websites, e-commerce that separates dynamic and static, real-time games, etc. affect bandwidth and protection requirements;
· Requirements specification assessment: Estimate concurrency, storage, database and logging requirements to select CPU/memory/disk;
· Budget and billing preferences: decide to pay as you go (hourly/minute billing) or annual/monthly subscription (higher discount);

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Analysis of common billing methods of Tencent Cloud (applicable to Taiwan)

· Pay-as-you-go: billed by the hour or minute, suitable for testing or flexible needs;
· Yearly and monthly subscription: One-time payment is converted into monthly basis, suitable for stable long-term business, usually with discounts;
· Bidding instances/reserved resources: Bidding or reservation is available in some scenarios to reduce costs;
· Traffic/bandwidth billing: Outbound bandwidth is usually billed based on peak value or traffic flow, so please pay attention to the billing caliber;
· Storage and snapshots: cloud disks are billed by GB/month, snapshots are billed by occupied space, and IOPS are sometimes billed independently;

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Example price list (example price, for reference only, reference range in 2024)

Instance type	CPU/memory	By volume (hour)	Annual discount (monthly average)
Entry	1 vCPU / 1GB	$0.008 - $0.02	$3 - $8
Standard	2 vCPU / 4GB	$0.03 - $0.06	$20 - $45
Performance	4 vCPU / 8GB	$0.08 - $0.20	$60 - $140
High traffic instance	8 vCPU / 32GB	$0.30 - $0.60	$220 - $450

· The prices in the table are sample ranges, and the actual price is subject to the price quoted on the purchase page;
· Common billing for outbound bandwidth: billed by peak bandwidth (such as 5Mbps/10Mbps) or by traffic (GB);
· CDN billing example: 0.02-0.08 USD/GB based on traffic, prices vary during holidays/acceleration range;
· DDoS professional is billed based on peak protection bandwidth, for example, 10Gbps starts at several hundred dollars/month;
· Storage example: 100GB cloud disk is about $5–$12/month, and snapshots are charged based on usage;

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Cost and configuration points of bandwidth, domain name and CDN

· Domain name fee: International domain names (.com/.net) are about $8-15/year, and .taiwan or .tw commonly used in Taiwan have different prices;
· Outbound bandwidth selection: Sites are evaluated based on peak bandwidth, and it is recommended to leave more than 30% redundancy to prevent sudden traffic;
· CDN configuration: CDN and dynamic and static separation on static resources can significantly reduce origin site traffic and delay;
· Caching rules and return-to-origin settings: Reasonable TTL and return-to-origin protection can reduce return-to-origin costs;
· Billing optimization: Set up regional acceleration and cache compression on demand, and use package traffic discounts to save costs;

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DDoS protection and security related billing and practices

·Basic protection: Most cloud vendors include basic DDoS protection (with limited cleaning threshold);
· Professional protection: billed according to protection peak bandwidth/policy, suitable for e-commerce and financial services;
· Protection strategy cost: Advanced rules, flexible traffic cleaning and WAF may cost extra;
· Monitoring and alarming: Continuous monitoring (cloud monitoring/logging) may incur additional log storage fees;
· Reasonable combination: Using a combination of CDN+WAF+Anti-DDoS can balance cost and security;

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Real cases and server configuration examples (Taiwan e-commerce example)

· Case background: A medium-sized e-commerce company in Taiwan, with an average daily concurrency of 500-1,500, and a peak promotion concurrency of tens of thousands;
· Selected configuration: 2 standard CVMs (4 vCPU/8GB), 1 database master (4 vCPU/16GB), cloud hard disk totaling 300GB;
· Network and acceleration: CDN is opened both overseas and locally, the outbound bandwidth is configured at a peak of 50Mbps, and additional charges are based on traffic;
· Security strategy: Purchase Anti-DDoS professional (starting from 10Gbps) + WAF strategy, and store 10GB of monitoring and logs daily;
· Cost example (sample estimate): CVM and cloud disk are about $400/month, CDN traffic is $200/month, DDoS+WAF is $350/month, totaling about $950/month (promotions and annual subscriptions can reduce it by about 15%-30%);

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Purchasing process and optimization suggestions

· Evaluate the access region and delay first, and choose Taiwan or a computer room close to the Asia-Pacific;
· Try out the pay-as-you-go trial to verify the performance, and then sub-subscribe to get discounts;
· Use monitoring and automatic scaling to reduce peak and valley costs;
· Combine CDN caching and object storage to reduce origin site outbound traffic;
·Regularly review bills and use cost centers/tags to separate accounts to ensure that expenses are controllable;