It is not recommended to use WordPress pre-installed images when installing websites on Alibaba Cloud servers.

When purchasing an Alibaba Cloud server to build a website yourself, Naibabiji's tutorial recommends installing the Baota Panel first and then installing WordPress. However, some friends found when installing the server image that there are images with WordPress pre-installed, which can be used immediately after installation. But,Naibabiji strongly advises you not to choose this type of image, as shown in the figure below:The Alibaba Cloud Marketplace contains many images pre-installed with WordPress or Baota Panel, and they are free, which makes them very popular among beginners. However, when your website needs speed optimization, you will find it impossible to follow some online tutorials for system-level optimization. It's equivalent to buying a Shared Hosting when you use a VPS.When Naibabiji was optimizing a friend's server, it was discovered that he was using an image with WordPress pre-installed. It was suggested to first back up the database and then proceed with optimization. The result was frequent database connection errors, leading to a complete crash. These images also do not provide detailed documentation, such as the default website location, installed program locations, versions, etc. Although if you are familiar with Linux, you can find out via commands, for beginner users, most tutorials you find online are for genuine LNMP one-click packages or Baota Panel. Then you will find, oh my, why is the tutorial different from mine? So, will you still choose a pre-installed WordPress image? It saves trouble at the beginning, but causes trouble later. A little more trouble at the beginning saves trouble later. The more data a website accumulates over time, the more troublesome it becomes to make changes.Summary:This article does not provide substantial data comparison, so the persuasiveness might be insufficient. In short, Naibabiji's advice is not to take the easy way out by directly installing images pre-installed with WordPress (pre-installed Baota is also not recommended). Instead, choose to install the CentOS system yourself and follow the tutorial to install it manually. It's a bit troublesome at the beginning, but when website traffic increases later, optimization becomes easier. After all, the reason for buying a VPS is to have autonomous management. If your system is pre-installed by someone else, and they only tell you what was installed, not how it was installed, where it was installed, or how it was configured, you won't even know where to start looking for information. If you purchased the lowest configuration of Alibaba Cloud T5 server, it is recommended toinstall the LNMP one-click package, which, relativelyBaota Panelspeaking, will save tens of megabytes of memory consumption.