Tencent Cloud Lighthouse US Virginia Review: Unlocks TikTok, 200Mbps Bandwidth, Unlimited Traffic

This article provides detailed review data for Tencent Cloud's Lighthouse (Lightweight Application Server) in the "Virginia" (Ashburn, Virginia, USA) data center. Here is a brief summary: UnixBench scored 1008 for single-core and 1995 for dual-core, which is quite decent. FIO test with 4K block size shows a read speed of 48.7 MB/s (approx. 12.1K IOPS) and a write speed of 48.77 MB/s (approx. 12.11K IOPS), which is relatively weak. The IP is a broadcast IP, unlocking TikTok, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, etc.

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

"Ruichi" (Standard) plan, KVM virtualization, default 200Mbps bandwidth, unlimited traffic, comes with one IPv4.

The exact CPU model is unknown, but the clock speed is 2394.446 MHz. It roughly matches E5-2640v4, E5-2680v4, or E5-2699Av4, so feel free to guess. The underlying virtualization is KVM. BBR is enabled. IPv6 is not supported. It runs on Tencent's own network, located in Ashburn, Virginia, USA. The current I/O speed is measured at approximately 293 MB/s:

FIO test with 4K block size: read speed is 48.7 MB/s (approx. 12.1K IOPS), write speed is 48.77 MB/s (approx. 12.11K IOPS), which is relatively weak.

Bandwidth test results for some international nodes provided by SpeedTest.net are shown below:

iperf3 test results for sending and receiving data on some international nodes are as follows:

Test results for some streaming media unlocking: popular services like Claude, Gemini, and Steam currency work fine.

UnixBench scored 1008 for single-core and 1995 for dual-core, which is quite decent: