Tencent Cloud Lighthouse Frankfurt Review: Unlocks TikTok, but Network is Not Ideal

This article shares the detailed review data of Tencent Cloud's Lighthouse (Lightweight Application Server) in the Frankfurt, Germany data center. A brief summary is as follows: Unixbench scores 1030 for single-core and 2032 for dual-core, which looks decent; FIO test with 4K data shows read speeds of approximately 48.77 MB/s (IOPS ~12.1K) and write speeds of approximately 48.85 MB/s (IOPS ~12.2K), which is relatively weak (it is unclear whether this is intentionally limited); Broadcast IP, unlocks TikTok, ChatGPT, Claude, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, etc., but cannot unlock Gemini.

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

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

The CPU model used by the server is unknown, but based on the clock speed, it is likely an Intel Xeon E5-2699A v4. The underlying virtualization is KVM, BBR is enabled by default, and IPv6 is not supported. It runs on Tencent's own network, located in Frankfurt, Germany. The current actual I/O speed is approximately 288 MB/s:

FIO test with 4K data shows read speeds of approximately 48.77 MB/s (IOPS ~12.1K) and write speeds of approximately 48.85 MB/s (IOPS ~12.2K), which is relatively weak. It is unclear whether this is intentionally limited:

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

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

Some streaming media unlock test results: Claude is unlocked, Gemini cannot be unlocked:

Unixbench scores 1030 for single-core and 2032 for dual-core, which looks decent: