If you hear the different advice you will realize that this is not the best way to invest in cryptocurrencies. There are options that can give better returns, just by holding or trading, but we need to put some effort into it.
yeah. there's a lot of advice posted here in this thread so he should be aware now about these cloud mining websites but it will still be his choice if he's going to put his money to some service so we should just let him decide and let him try some such as hashnest or hashflare but just a friendly reminder if you are afraid to lose so much then you should not put an amount of money that you are afraid to lose.
At present, the cloud mining price is quite expensive. Even for the Hashnest, if the difficulty rise more than 5% every 14 days, it is not profitable.
There are places that mining is profitable. Mainly it comes to the price of electricity.
If you have enough funds to buy miner, but electricity in your place is too expensive, you can try for example proposition like this:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1694162.0However, remember that such investments always involve risk, and only you will bear responsibilities for your decision.