This article shares the detailed review data of Tencent Cloud's Lighthouse (Lightweight Application Server) series in the São Paulo, Brazil data center. To briefly summarize: Intel Xeon Platinum 8255C, DDR4 ECC, SSD disk. UnixBench single-core score is 875, dual-core score is 1616, which is decent. FIO test with 4K block size shows read speed of approximately 82.49 MB/s (IOPS ~20.6K) and write speed of approximately 82.71 MB/s (IOPS ~20.6K), indicating average performance. It uses a broadcast IP, unlocking TikTok, ChatGPT, Claude, Netflix, and Amazon Prime Video, but cannot unlock Gemini.

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Tencent Cloud Lighthouse Official: https://cloud.tencent.com/product/lighthouse

Ruichi Plan, KVM virtualization, default 200Mbps bandwidth, unlimited traffic, comes with one IPv4:

RAMCPUSSDPriceBuy
1G2 Cores40G~$5/monthLink
2G2 Cores40G~$6/monthLink
4G2 Cores60G~$9/monthLink
8G2 Cores80G~$14/monthLink
8G4 Cores120G~$34/monthLink
16G4 Cores180G~$36/monthLink
The CPU model used by the server is Intel Xeon Platinum 8255C (24 cores, 48 threads, base frequency 2.5GHz, turbo frequency). The virtualization is KVM. BBR is enabled. It does not support IPv6. It runs on Tencent's own network, located in São Paulo, Brazil. The current actual I/O test data is approximately 288 MB/s: Tencent Cloud Lighthouse Brazil São Paulo VPS Review: Unlocks TikTok, Relay Required for China Users - Image 2

FIO actual test with 4K block size: read speed is approximately 82.49 MB/s (IOPS ~20.6K), write speed is approximately 82.71 MB/s (IOPS ~20.6K). The performance is average.

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Bandwidth upload and download test data for some international nodes provided by Speedtest.net:

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iperf3 speed test, the data transmission and reception results for some international nodes are as follows:

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Approximate results of some streaming media unlocking tests: Claude can be unlocked, Gemini cannot be unlocked.

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UnixBench, single-core score is 875, dual-core score is 1616, which is decent:

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