Tencent Cloud Lighthouse US Silicon Valley VPS Review: TikTok Unlocked, Powerful Hardware

This article presents a review of Tencent Cloud's Lighthouse (Lightweight Application Server) in the Silicon Valley, USA data center. For details, please refer to the full text. A brief summary is as follows: AMD EPYC 9754, DDR5, NVMe SSD—looks powerful on paper; FIO test with 4K data shows read speed of 52.09 MB/s (approx. 13K IOPS) and write speed of 52.16 MB/s (approx. 13K IOPS), which is average and might be intentionally limited; UnixBench scores are 901 for single-core and 1498 for dual-core, which is decent and not too bad. This fully demonstrates that even the best hardware cannot withstand heavy user congestion, or the official platform has imposed performance limits on individual VMs. The broadcast IP unlocks TikTok, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Steam currency, etc.

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

Special Note: The machine used for this test is the "Entry-level Package (Basic)" with only 30 Mbps bandwidth. It is recommended to go for the 200 Mbps "Ruichi Package" (Advanced Package).

Ruichi Package: KVM virtualization, default 200 Mbps bandwidth, unlimited traffic, comes with 1 IPv4.

The specific CPU model used by the server is AMD EPYC 9754 (128 cores, 256 threads, base frequency 2.25 GHz, boost frequency 3.1 GHz). The virtualization is KVM. BBR has been enabled. IPv6 is not supported. It runs on Tencent's own network, located in Santa Clara, California, USA. The current I/O test shows around 262.3 MB/s:

FIO test with 4K data shows a read speed of 52.09 MB/s (approx. 13K IOPS) and a write speed of 52.16 MB/s (approx. 13K IOPS). The performance is average, which might be due to intentional limitations;

The upload and download bandwidth test data for some international nodes provided by SpeedTest.Net is roughly as follows:

For the iperf3 test, the transceiver data performance for some international connections is as follows:

The results of some streaming media unlocking tests are as follows: popular platforms like Claude, Gemini, Steam currency, etc., are supported.

UnixBench scores are 901 for single-core and 1498 for dual-core, which is decent and not too bad;