Tencent Tokyo Lighthouse VPS Review: Unblocks TikTok, Ideal for China Unicom and China Mobile Users

This article shares the cloud evaluation data of Tencent Cloud's Lightweight Application Server (Lighthouse) in the Tokyo, Japan data center. The summary is as follows: E5v4, DDR4, SSD cloud disks; UnixBench score: single-core 955, dual-core 1900, which looks decent. FIO test (4K data): read speed is about 51.38 MB/s (IOPS ~12.8K), write speed is about 51.46 MB/s (IOPS ~12.8K), giving a feeling that individual VMs are intentionally limited... Unlocks TikTok, ChatGPT, Claude, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, etc., but cannot unlock Gemini.

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

Lighthouse packages, KVM virtualization, default 200Mbps bandwidth, unlimited traffic, comes with one IPv4.

The CPU model used by the server is unknown. Guessing by the frequency, there could be several models; a blind guess might be E5-2699A v4. The underlying virtualization is KVM. BBR is enabled. It runs on Tencent's own network, located in Tokyo, Japan. The current I/O test is approximately 296 MB/s:

FIO test, 4K data: read speed is about 51.38 MB/s (IOPS ~12.8K), write speed is about 51.46 MB/s (IOPS ~12.8K), giving a feeling that individual VMs are intentionally limited...

Upload and download bandwidth test data for some international nodes provided by SpeedTest.net:

iperf3 speed test, the performance of sending and receiving data for some international nodes is as follows:

Streaming media unlocking test results: Unlocks TikTok, ChatGPT, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video.

Streaming media unlocking status: Claude can be unlocked, Gemini cannot be unlocked.

UnixBench score: single-core 955, dual-core 1900, the performance looks decent;