Tencent Cloud Lighthouse
A lightweight server from one of China's large clouds: in-country datacenters, ICP filing required, and a price table published on the product page.
Price
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The entry plan: 2 vCPU, 2 GB, a 40 GB SSD, 3 Mbps and a 200 GB monthly traffic bundle, at ¥459 a year (85% of the monthly rate). Bandwidth and traffic come bundled; overage follows the vendor's own rules.
Who it suits
Sites with mainly mainland visitors, filed businesses, anything that needs low latency.
Who it does not suit: Anything you cannot file, projects with no mainland entity, and situations where visitors are overseas.
Routes we list it under
Check these before you pay
- ICP filing is the hard gate
Mainland datacenters block domains that have not been filed. Solve that first — discussing routes before that is pointless.
- The bandwidth is a garden hose, but the latency is real
3–6 Mbps is plenty for a text-and-image site, an admin panel or a small tool. Video, large files and busy APIs are not — add a CDN or move up a tier.
Questions
What does it cost?
The entry plan is ¥45 per month, or ¥459 a year at 85% of the monthly rate. That covers 2 vCPU, 2 GB, a 40 GB system disk, 3 Mbps and a 200 GB monthly traffic bundle. Bandwidth and traffic are bundled, and exceeding them means throttling.
Mainland server or an overseas VPS?
It depends on where your visitors are, not on price. A mainland server gives single-digit, stable latency but requires ICP filing and a narrow pipe; an overseas VPS needs no filing and offers more bandwidth, but every mainland visit crosses an international link.
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