LightNode Review
LightNode in its own words
LightNode supports a variety of use cases, such as application hosting, development environments, game servers and databases.
Key features include:
- Global Network: Offers Cloud VPS with pre-installed operating systems across more than 40 locations worldwide, providing low latency with local BGP access.
- Hourly Billing: Provides hassle-free hourly billing to make your business stable and flexible.
- Rapid Deployment: Cloud VPS can be rapidly deployed in just 1-2 minutes.
- High-Specification Infrastructure: Features high-frequency CPUs (Intel), DDR4 Memory, NVMe SSD Storage.
LightNode was founded as a VPS provider in 2002.
It is headquartered in Hong Kong.
It employs 500 people.
It offers VPS hosting products.
- Argentina
- Bahrain
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Cambodia
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Egypt
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Indonesia
- Iraq
- Japan
- Korea
- Kuwait
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Peru
- Philippines
- Qatar
- Russia
- Singapore
- South Africa
- Thailand
- Turkey
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Vietnam
Quick Links
| LightNode plans specs and prices | Plans |
| LightNode instance types | Instance Types |
| List of LightNode trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in LightNode trials | CPUs |
| List of LightNode yabs.sh results | Yabs |
LightNode VPS Features
Features not included in VPS prices are marked as missing in the table below.
LightNode Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, LightNode also sells the services marked green in the following table:
| Backups | Block storage | Object storage | Load balancer |
| Floating IP addresses | Team Management | Managed databases | Serverless |
| DDoS protection | Kubernetes | GPU instances | Private network |
VPS Instance Provisioning Time
For each LightNode VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server from the moment it was ordered to the moment it accepted SSH connections.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
| Average Provisioning Time | Median Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90s | 90s | 80s | 100s | 2 |
Control Panel Screenshots
Cloud Storage Prices
For a comparison of storage features and prices from all providers, please check the Cloud Storage Prices page.
| Storage Type | Price / GB / month & Request Pricing | Description |
Restriction
Extra capacity provisioning |
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| Block | $0.140 | LightNode block storage |
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LightNode Instance Types and Plans
Note: All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month without any further commitment and before promotions unless noted otherwise. The IPv4 charge is added to the VPS monthly price in case the provider doesn't include it by default.
Cloud Server Plans
| Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Monthly Price |
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| Family: General Purpose Instance Type: VPS |
LightNode offers high-performance cloud servers with NVMe SSD storage and KVM virtualization, available across more than 40 global locations. These Virtual Private Servers (VPS) are designed for a balance of compute, memory, and networking resources, making them suitable for various applications including web hosting, development environments, and other general computing tasks. They feature shared CPU cores, included SSD storage, dedicated IP addresses, and flexible hourly or monthly billing options, providing a scalable and cost-effective solution with full root access.
Provider page for instance type:
https://go.lightnode.com/
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| Start | 1 | 2.0GB | 50GB | $7.71 / month |
| Agency | 2 | 4.0GB | 50GB | $14.70 / month |
| Premium | 4 | 8.0GB | 50GB | $27.70 / month |
| Enterprise | 8 | 16.0GB | 150GB | $54.11 / month |