LunaNode Review
LunaNode was founded as a VPS provider in 2013.
It is headquartered in Canada.
It offers VPS hosting products.
- Canada
- France
Quick Links
| LunaNode plans specs and prices | Plans |
| LunaNode instance types | Instance Types |
| List of LunaNode trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in LunaNode trials | CPUs |
| Performance variations of LunaNode VPS over the long term | Consistency |
| List of LunaNode yabs.sh results | Yabs |
LunaNode VPS Features
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
| Feature | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly Billing | Yes | |
| DDOS Protection | No | |
| Backups | No |
$0.03/GB/mo, billed hourly. |
| Control Panel | Custom | |
| SSH Keys Setup | Yes | |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 3 | |
| Number of Datacenter Continents | 2 | |
| Monitoring Charts | Yes |
Network, CPU, IO. |
| Admin REST API | Yes | |
| Upgrade VPS from admin console | Yes | |
| Mobile Friendly UI | Yes | |
| Reverse DNS | Yes | |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit cards, Paypal, Bitcoin | |
| Hidden CPU Model | No | |
| Affiliate Program | Yes | |
| Firewall | Yes |
Called Security Group in LunaNode UI. |
| Shelving | Yes |
Shelving allows you to deactivate a temporarily unneeded virtual machine so that you only pay for the storage space and assigned IP addresses: https://wiki.lunanode.com/index.php/Shelving |
Pros and Cons
Strengths
- No charge other than for storage and IP address for turned off instances.
- Bandwidth pooling.
LunaNode Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, LunaNode also offers the following services (possibly for a fee):
| 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 LunaNode 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 | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| 70s | 60s | 80s | 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 | Description | Restriction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snapshots | $0.030 |
Snapshots are created on users requests and are images of block storage disk volumes. They can be used to clone VMs
https://www.lunanode.com/features/snapshots |
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| Block | $0.030 |
HDD volumes.
Also available: SSD volumes only in Toronto: $0.06/GB/month.
LunaNode volumes can be used as boot devices and you will only be charged for the portion of the volume size that exceeds the storage space included with the VM.
https://www.lunanode.com/features/volumes |
Network Bandwidth Prices
These are the network bandwidth prices charged by LunaNode for outbound transfers from VPS to the internet.
For a comparison of bandwidth prices from all providers, go to the Network Bandwitdh Prices page.
| Description | Price / GB |
|---|---|
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Pricing model: Allowance Then Charged
(the provider gives a free bandwidth allowance with each server. Bandwidth above the free allowance is charged by the provider.)
Free allowance: 2.5 TB / month
(for a 2 core 4GB instance or closest available)
Transfer pool: yes
https://www.lunanode.com/pricing
|
$0.003/GB |
This provider offers the following promotion:
Sign up for a new LunaNode account and then go to Billing/Promotions and enter the promo code below to receive a $20 credit.
Unused credits expire after 60 days.
Value: $20
LunaNode 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.
| Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family: General purpose Instance Type: s |
General-Purpose plans come with CPU, memory, and storage resources that are appropriate for a wide range of web and other server applications. |
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| s.1 | 2 | 1.0GB | 20GB | $7.00 / month |
| s.2 | 4 | 2.0GB | 35GB | $14.00 / month |
| Family: Memory optimized Instance Type: m |
Memory-Optimized plans are designed for applications with higher-than-average memory-to-CPU requirements. |
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| m.1s | 1 | 1.0GB | 15GB | $3.50 / month |
| m.2 | 1 | 2.0GB | 20GB | $7.00 / month |
| m.4 | 2 | 4.0GB | 35GB | $14.00 / month |
| m.8 | 4 | 8.0GB | 70GB | $28.00 / month |
| m.16 | 6 | 16.0GB | 125GB | $56.00 / month |
| m.32 | 8 | 32.0GB | 250GB | $100.00 / month |
| Family: Compute optimized Instance Type: c |
Compute-Optimized plans include dedicated CPU cores, along with ample memory and storage resources, for compute-intensive applications like batch processing and video encoding. |
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| c.1 | 1 | 5.0GB | 100GB | $20.00 / month |
