Elastic Compute Service is an IaaS-level (infrastructure as a service) provided by Alibaba Group. The service offers high performance, thorough reliability, and scalability. You can establish your own infrastructure securely and efficiently on Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service. One of the great features offered by ECS is that you can acquire ECS instances within minutes which enables you to rapidly deploy your services as well as reduces your time to the market. ECS also comes packed with the required tools and functionalities to monitor your network to keep your network performance on track as well as ensure an early resolution to any problems that emerge.
Configuring a WebServer (IIS) and Apache on Alibaba Cloud ECS
Elastic Compute Service (buy here) can be acquired in a starter package on the official website which comes with an ECS cloud server along with a Data Transmission Plan (DTS). You can enroll in a free trial to check out the product if you wish to do so. Once you have created an Alibaba cloud account, you will be prompted to create an ECS instance. We will guide you through the whole procedure.
Creating an ECS Instance
Adding Security Group Rules
If you didn’t add any security group rules while creating the instance, don’t worry as we will show you how to do so now.
Connecting to the ECS Instance
Now that you have added a security group, you can connect to the ECS instance for the first time. The connecting procedure can be a bit different depending on the instance image. We will be covering both Windows and Linux, so you don’t have anything to worry about.
Connecting Linux Instance
Connecting to Windows Server Instance
Configuring Apache
Now that you have connected to the instance, it is time to install the latest version of Apache web server and then configure it to run at startup. All you have to do is enter a few sets of commands and voila, you are done.
Configuring IIS
If you have a Windows Server image, you will have to configure IIS instead of Apache. For that, you will have to first install IIS and the management tools. Here’s how to do this:
