West.cn (Xinnet/West Digital) review

The entry plan is 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB disk at CNY 72. That places West.cn above the €5.83 median entry price in this comparison, and above the €5.63 median for VPS listings. If a small node is the goal, the first bill is the thing to test.

The bandwidth allowance is listed as 1 Mbps. That works for control panels, small APIs and build agents, and it constrains anything that serves files to real users. Combined with the entry plan of 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB disk, the node is sized for light work rather than busy public sites.

Nodes run in China, HK and US, and West.cn is headquartered in China. That gives a mainland CN base with Hong Kong and US locations available, so a team can cover CN users and still place a box nearer US traffic. The list is short, so wider reach means another provider.

The operating system listed is linux, so a Windows project is out of scope here. Server types cover vps and bare metal, which lets a shop move from a small VPS to dedicated hardware without changing provider. A Windows requirement points to a different host rather than a different plan.

Billing runs monthly and hourly and the listed model is hourly. Monthly billing suits a service that runs every day, while hourly billing keeps a build agent or staging node cheap when it is switched off. Both are supported, so commitment can stay as short as the project needs.

DDoS protection is included on these servers rather than sold as an add on. On a CNY 72 entry plan that removes a line item from the bill. The 1 Mbps allowance still sets the ceiling for how much a small node can carry in traffic.

Support runs on email, phone and chat. Email and a help centre suit documentation driven questions, while phone and chat cover the urgent cases that a CN based provider will see from users in other time zones. That mix is wider than documentation alone.

West.cn suits a team that wants a CN base, reach into CN, HK and US, and both VPS and bare metal on one account, listed under vps and bare metal. It suits a buyer less well when the only criterion is the lowest entry price, since CNY 72 runs above the alternatives here.