What does Aliyun do? What's the use?

Aliyun researches cloud computing and artificial intelligence to provide safe and reliable computing and data processing capabilities.

Aliyun serves leading companies in manufacturing, finance, government, transportation, healthcare, telecommunications, energy and many other fields, including large enterprise customers such as China Unicom, 12306, Sinopec, PetroChina, Philips, and UW Genetics, as well as star Internet companies such as Microblogging, Knowledge, and Hammer Technology.

Aliyun has deployed energy-efficient green data centers around the world, using clean computing to provide constant energy power for the new world of the Internet of Everything. Its service areas include China (North China, East China, South China and Hong Kong), Singapore, the United States (East and West America), Europe, the Middle East, Australia and Japan.

Expanded Data

In 2011, AliCloud's "Tianfei" cloud computing platform with independent intellectual property rights began to provide public **** services; in 2010, the last IBM minicomputer of Ali Group came off the production line; "Double Eleven", AliCloud The last IBM mini-computer of Ali Group came off the production line in 2010.

Alibaba's successful experience shows that the original system relying on foreign vendors can be built on cheap PCs, which clears the way for most companies to establish cloud-based IT systems.

In the Internet era, data is everything. However, the "black hole" of investment in information technology construction has also deterred many enterprises. For example, in traditional IT solutions, enterprises buy packaged software and servers and other hardware, upgrade difficulties, the need for their own technical team to maintain;

When all of this software is deployed in the cloud, computing resources can be readily expanded and accessed through the cloud, the enterprise only need to pay on demand, on-demand purchase.

Source:Baidu Encyclopedia - AliCloud

Source:People's Daily Online - AliCloud signs up with China's largest IT vendor.

What is the best configuration to use for AliCloud servers for futures?

The futures website should involve a lot of data interaction. Therefore, the requirements for IO performance and CPU performance are high. It is recommended to buy a series of IO optimization Ⅱ, CPU is best eight core and above, data disk must choose SSD cloud disk, 100G from the bar bandwidth is recommended from 3M, if the access to a large number of can be 5M from the other did not have much idea of.

How to place two different websites on the AliCloud server? How do I set up the database?

I don't know if your database is Ali's or you build your own on ecs, if you build your own then use a different library name

If there is only one database name you can use the data table prefix to differentiate between the data content of the two sites

What servers do you use for AliCloud?

With AliCloud servers, after the purchase of cloud servers, the acquisition of cloud servers time is reduced to 10-15 minutes. When the demand for computing resources changes, the computing resources can be upgraded at any time according to the resource packages provided by the AliCloud website.

The cloud server control panel integrates common management functions for cloud servers. Through the cloud server control panel, you can see the configuration information of the cloud server, and you can perform operations such as restarting, shutting down, booting up, resetting, changing passwords, connecting remotely, and replacing the operating system on the cloud server. And you can also view the monitoring information of the cloud server for the day at any time.