Using Alibaba Cloud servers to install websites is not recommended with WordPress image pre-installation

When purchasing an Alibaba Cloud server to build a website, Naiba's tutorial recommends installing Baota Panel first and then installing the WordPress website. Some friends discovered when installing images on the server that there are images with WordPress pre-installed, which can be used directly after installation. However,Naiba strongly advises against choosing this type of image, as shown in the figure below:Alibaba Cloud Marketplace contains many images pre-installed with WordPress or Baota Panel, and they are free, so they are 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 like buying a Shared Hosting with a VPS.When Naiba was optimizing a friend's server, it was discovered that he used an image with WordPress pre-installed. Then, it was suggested to back up the database first and then proceed with optimization. As a result, the database frequently encountered connection errors and crashed directly. These images also lack detailed documentation, such as default website location, installed program locations, versions, etc. Although if you are familiar with Linux, you can check via commands, for beginner users, most tutorials found 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, would you still choose an image with WordPress pre-installed? It saves trouble at the beginning but causes trouble later. A little 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 comparisons, so the persuasion may be insufficient. In short, Naiba's advice is not to take shortcuts by directly installing images with WordPress pre-installed (pre-installed Baota is also not recommended). Instead, choose to install the CentOS system yourself and follow the tutorial to install it manually. It may be troublesome initially, but optimizing the website later when traffic increases will be easier. After all, buying a VPS is for autonomous management. If your system is pre-installed by others and they only tell you what is installed, not how it was installed, where it was installed, or how it was configured, you won't know where to start researching. If you purchased the lowest configuration of Alibaba Cloud T5 server, it is recommended toinstall the LNMP one-click package, relativelyBaota Panelcan save tens of megabytes of memory consumption.