Create a simple application server - Simple Application Server

When you create a simple application server, you must configure information such as the region, image, instance plan, and subscription duration based on your business requirements. This topic describes how to create a simple application server.

Background information

Before you create a simple application server, you must understand the limits of Simple Application Server. For more information, see Limits.

Procedure

Log on to the Simple Application Server console.
In the left-side navigation pane, click Servers.
In the upper-left corner of the page, click Create Server.

On the Simple Application Server page, configure parameters based on your business requirements.

The following table describes the parameters.

Parameter	Example	Description
Region	China (Hong Kong)	Select a region based on the geographical location of your business. The region cannot be changed after the server is created. Proceed with caution. Important Simple application servers in regions outside the Chinese mainland, such as China (Hong Kong) and Singapore, use international bandwidth. High network latency may occur when you access these servers from regions inside the Chinese mainland. We recommend that you select a region that is closest to the geographical location of your end users for higher access speeds of your users. For more information, see Regions and network connectivity.
Image	Type: Apps Image Application: WordPress Version: 5.8	Select a tab and then select an image based on your business requirements. Apps Image: shows application images. Application images contain application environments and allow you to deploy development environments or build websites with ease. Important Select extended services provided by Alibaba Cloud is available for only specific application images. Extended services allow you to enable features, such as HTTPS access. For more information, see Enable HTTPS access. OS Image: shows OS images. OS images contain only base OSs. You can install applications based on your business requirements. Custom Images: shows custom images. Custom images are created based on snapshots of simple application servers. You can use a custom image to create simple application servers that have the same configurations. For more information, see Overview of custom images.
Instance Plan	$3.5/mo	Select a plan based on your business requirements. You are charged additional fees for outbound data transfers to the Internet beyond the plan. For more information about billing, see Billing overview.
Data Disk	0GB	This parameter is optional. To have more storage space on the simple application server, you can create and attach a data disk of a specific size.
Subscription Time	1 Month	Select a subscription duration for the simple application server. You can set the subscription duration of the simple application server to one month, three months, six months, one year, two years, or three years. You can select Auto-renewal based on your business requirements.
Quantity	1	Specify the number of simple application servers that you want to create. The default value is 1. You can create up to 20 simple application servers. Important The Simple Application Server page shows the number of servers that you have and the number of servers that you can create. The number of servers that you specify cannot exceed the number of servers that you can create.

After you configure the parameters, click Buy Now.
On the Confirm Order page, check the configurations of the server.
In the Terms of Service section, read the terms and select I have read and agree to General Terms and End User License.
Click Pay and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the payment.
After you complete the payment, click "Enter the management console" to go back to Servers page of the Simple Application Server console. On the Servers page, you can view the server that you created.

What to do next

After you create a Simple Application Server, you can set a password or bind a key pair to connect to the server. For more information, see Set or reset server passwords, Manage key pairs on Linux simple application servers, and Overview of remote connection methods.
If the server is created from an application image provided by Alibaba Cloud, you can deploy applications on the server with ease in the Simple Application Server console. For more information, see Manage applications on a server that is created based on an application image.
If the server is created from an OS image provided by Alibaba Cloud, you must build a development environment or deploy applications on your own. Alibaba Cloud provides best practices for manually configuring servers. For more information, see Build a website. You can also refer to the Elastic Compute Service (ECS) website building tutorials to build websites on simple application servers. For more information, see Summary of website building methods.
Important
When you refer to the ECS website building tutorials to build websites on simple application servers, we recommend that you select the tutorials on manually building websites or applications and make sure that the server image versions are consistent with the operating system versions used in the tutorials. If the server image versions are inconsistent with the operating system versions, errors may occur when commands are run.