LightNode

Platform

Products

category: currently_publicly_orderable_hourly_kvm_cloud_vps_with_root_or_administrator_control; comparable regional card count: 4; comparable monthly cap range: USD 7.71–52.70; comparable resource range: 1–8 shared vCPU, 2–16 GiB DDR4 RAM, fixed 50 GB NVMe SSD system disk and 1–4 TB traffic; broader compute matrix: The current global product surface also lists ten CPU/RAM pairs from 1 vCPU/2 GiB through 16 vCPU/64 GiB, traffic choices from 1,000 through 6,000 GB and optional data disks. Exact public prices for every non-card combination are not shown, so they are described but not fabricated as benchmark offers.; administrator control: Regional pages claim full root access; API documentation names root or Administrator password reset, and deployment documentation exposes administrator settings.; orderability: Each included current-sale city has a public product page whose Buy control targets an exact console region, zone, 1C2M50S configuration and CPU_SHARE type. The public flow requires account registration and at least USD 10 recharge before deployment. No registration, recharge, login, API key, order or instance was created.; current location boundary: The provider's live location page calls its 41-card list 'Current sale locations' and 'every active location'. Only in-scope cities present there and backed by a correct city-specific create link are included. Toronto, Bucharest and Quito retain landing/product material but are absent from that current-sale index; Toronto's Buy link additionally points to Silicon Valley, so all three are excluded for this snapshot.; geographic contract boundary: The current terms say a customer may select a geographic storage area but also authorize LightNode, unless otherwise agreed in writing, to transfer and store service content in other geographic areas at its discretion. Current order location is therefore recorded with no permanent-placement or data-residency guarantee.; network: Regional cards include a dedicated local/static IP and BGP-oriented connectivity claims. Documentation says a public IP is allocated with the host and same-datacenter private-IP traffic is free. Exact public port speed, IPv6, additional-IP pricing, reverse DNS, DDoS capacity and per-city carrier mix are not_found.; storage: The included 50-GB NVMe system disk is fixed. Up to three optional data disks of at most 500 GB each may be attached in 1-GB granularity; disk can grow but not shrink. Optional disk price is excluded.; traffic boundary: Regional cards label 1–4 TB Bandwidth. Documentation describes both pay-by-traffic and pay-by-bandwidth modes; traffic-plan overage may be usage-billed and then limited to 10 kbps. Exact per-city overage rate and port configuration are not_found.; billing: Hourly usage is capped at 28 days/672 hours per calendar month, so the published monthly rate is a maximum. The start rate is also marketed as USD 0.012/hour, whose rounded multiplication does not equal USD 7.71; the explicit monthly cap controls. Documentation says a stopped instance continues billing until released, conflicting with marketing that says turning it off stops billing; the documentation boundary is retained.; currency and tax: The hourly FAQ says the platform supports USD or HKD transactions. Public tax/VAT treatment, invoice jurisdiction and buyer-specific withholding are not_found.; promotion boundary: The global product page says its current price includes no discounts. First-recharge bonuses of up to USD 15 and any free-bandwidth legacy credit are excluded.; provider marketing scale: The About page claims 10,000+ customers, while current regional copy says the 2021 platform has served 80,000+ customers across 130+ countries and launched 1.1 million+ cloud servers. These are unaudited, differently scoped provider claims rather than customer-review counts.

Operating systems

documented system image families: CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, Windows; documented application images: WordPress, BT-panel; custom images: A snapshot or custom image created from an existing resource can deploy a host on the same node; up to five custom images per locale are documented.; version boundary: Regional marketing says multiple Linux/Windows versions, and the OpenAPI exposes an authenticated image-list endpoint, but no anonymous current version inventory was obtained. Exact OS versions, editions, licences, architecture, patch dates and per-region image parity are not_found.; reinstall: The console, OpenAPI and CLI document OS reinstall/reset; the instance must be stopped for the console workflow.

Virtualization

hypervisor: KVM; guest access: Linux root or Windows Administrator; console-selected/generated password or SSH key; VNC console; control plane: Web console for create, start, graceful/forced stop, restart, resize up or down while stopped, reinstall, password reset, monitoring, disk, snapshot, custom-image, firewall and release operations; automation: Documented token-authenticated OpenAPI and lnctl CLI for instance lifecycle, images, SSH keys, security groups, regions, packages and asynchronous task status; region and zone model: Documentation defines a region as a physical data center and availability zones as independent power/network areas within a region. Each included create link currently selects one named zone; whether any included city offers more than one customer-selectable zone is not_found.; nested virtualization live migration host selection and hypervisor version: not_found

CPU isolation

classification: shared; basis: Every included public create URL carries type=CPU_SHARE. This explicit product-type signal controls over generic 'dedicated resources' VPS marketing under the directory methodology.; processor label: High Frequency; exact vendor, model, generation and clock are not_found; physical core mapping smt mapping pinning numa policy numeric contention ratio burst credit and sustained use limit: not_found

Features

• App installation guest managed: Full root/Administrator control permits installation of compatible applications subject to the acceptable-use policy.; provider images: Deployment documentation identifies WordPress and BT-panel application images for one-click environment installation.; boundary: The provider's separately marketed containerized Application product is not treated as a capability bundled with each VPS. Current app-image versions, regional stock, update responsibility and support scope are not_found.
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• Templates & images capabilities: system and application images, one snapshot per individual drive, snapshot rollback, custom images created from instance snapshots, up to five custom images per locale and same-node deployment; snapshot scope: An instance snapshot excludes attached data disks. Documentation says a snapshot is released with its server or drive, while the global product page says snapshots may be kept indefinitely; the conflict is retained and indefinite survival after resource release is not claimed.; backup boundary: The terms make no commitment to retain saves/backups and place integrity, preservation and backup responsibility on the customer. Snapshots are not represented as a verified backup, RPO or RTO.
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• Network orchestration interfaces: web console, OpenAPI, lnctl CLI; capabilities: region/zone selection and package discovery, instance create/start/stop/restart/reinstall/reset/release, CPU/RAM resize up or down while stopped, public IP allocation, system-assigned same-datacenter private IP connectivity, monitoring for CPU, RAM, disk and public/private traffic, data disks, snapshots, custom images and firewall groups; private network boundary: Documentation says same-datacenter private-IP traffic is free and different regions do not interconnect. Customer-defined VPC/subnet, routing, NAT gateway, floating IP and cross-zone topology are not_found.; address boundary: Dedicated/local static IP is marketed per regional VPS; exact IP version and geolocation accuracy warranty are not_found. No IPv6, BYOIP, BGP session, rDNS workflow or address limit is published.; api boundary: The public API documents lifecycle and query endpoints and requires a console-issued token. Versioning, rate limits, idempotency and Terraform provider are not_found.
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• Firewall service: Free region-scoped virtual firewall groups controlling public-IP ingress and egress; default policy: Without a security group the deployment guide says all ports are open. Within a firewall group, outbound is allowed; inbound TCP 22, 80, 3389, 443 and all ICMP are allowed by default and other inbound traffic is rejected.; rule model: Allow or reject; All, TCP, UDP, ICMP and GRE protocols; port/range; source CIDR; description; creation-order priority with manual reordering.; limits: One firewall group per instance, 100 instances per group and 50 combined ingress/egress rules; groups and instances must be in the same region and apply only to public networking.; ddos capacity logging statefulness ipv6 rules and api mutation: not_found
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• Load balancer
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• DNS management
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• Git integrations
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• Container registry
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