Compared with ECC, Light Server is easier to use and more suitable for SMEs, developers, cloud computing beginners, and students, as it simplifies ECC’s advanced concepts and features. It offers high-bandwidth data transfer plans and integrates basic cloud services into cost-effective bundles. Such bundles contain popular open-source software programs perfect for lightweight use cases with low to medium load and moderate access requests, such as small and mid-sized websites, web applications, blogs, forums, mini games, ecommerce, cloud storage, and image hosting, as well as development, testing, and learning environments in the cloud.
Note:
- When creating a Light Server instance, you cannot specify the CPU model of the underlying physical server; instead, Yisu Cloud will randomly assign a physical CPU model that meets the selected bundle specification.
- At the same specification level, Light Server has a CPU and memory performance comparable with that of ECC.
The table below lists Light Server’s strengths and main differences from ECC:
| Product Strength | Light Server | ECC | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Target user | SMEs and individual developers | Large enterprises | |
| Lightweight scenario-oriented | Lightweight use cases:
| Use cases with complex architectures:
| |
| Favorable pricing | Selling method | Cost-effective bundles (combinations of computing/network/storage resources) | Flexible selection of computing/storage/network resources that are billed independently |
| Network billing | High-bandwidth data transfer plan | Fixed bandwidth/traffic usage | |
| Simpler use | Console operation | Integrated, independent, and simplified console | For all services, with more details of ECC, VPC, EIP, and security group involved |
| Application creation |
| Application creation on your own | |
| Networking | Automatic network resource creation without manual management needed | Network creation, configuration, and management on your own | |
Note:
- Compared with ECC, the main limits of Light Server at the functional level include the following:
- An instance supports the overall upgrade of the configuration (computing, storage, and network) on a bundle basis but not bundle downgrade.
- For the specific use limits of Light Server, see Use Limits.
- There are certain limits on private network connectivity for Light Server.
- Light Server cloud disks are independent of ECC cloud disks, which means Light Server cloud disks can only be attached to Light Server instances but not ECC instances.
For scenarios like high-concurrency websites, video encoding/decoding, large-scale games, and complex distributed cluster applications, it’s recommended to use ECC. ECC provides rich instance models, such as Memory Optimized, High I/O, Big Data, Bare Metal, and GPU/FPGA Heterogeneous Computing. For more information, see Cloud server selection suggestions.