This article shares the cloud benchmark data of Tencent Cloud Lighthouse in the Hong Kong data center. Summary: Intel Xeon Platinum 8225C, DDR4, SSD cloud disk; UnixBench test scores 893 for single-core and 1,639 for dual-core, showing decent performance; FIO test with 4K block size shows read speed of 73.57 MB/s (approx. 18.3K IOPS) and write speed of 73.76 MB/s (approx. 18.4K IOPS), which is average; broadcast IP, unlocks Singapore TikTok, Hong Kong Netflix/YouTube/Amazon Prime Video, but cannot unlock ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini.

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

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RAMCPUSSDPricePurchase
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 8225C (24 cores, 48 threads, base frequency 2.5GHz, turbo frequency 3.9GHz). It uses KVM virtualization. BBR has been enabled. It does not support IPv6. It runs on Tencent's own network, located in Hong Kong. The current actual I/O test is approximately 291 MB/s: Tencent Cloud Hong Kong Lightweight VPS Review: Poor Broadcast IP Unlocking, Network is Basically Useless! - Image 2

FIO test, 4K block size: read speed is 73.57 MB/s (approx. 18.3K IOPS), write speed is 73.76 MB/s (approx. 18.4K IOPS). The performance is average.

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iperf3 test, transceiver test data for some international nodes:

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Streaming media unlocking results: Due to regional restrictions, Gemini and Claude cannot be unlocked.

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UnixBench test, single-core score of 893, dual-core score of 1,639, performance is decent:

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