Billing description
Lightnode charges in the way of pay as you go, billing and settlement by hour. The user can open the corresponding configured host according to the business needs, start charging from the completion of host deployment, and make settlement and deduction according to the host configuration every hour (less than one hour according to one hour). It should be noted that the charging will continue when the host is stopped. The charging will not be carried out until the host is released.
Billing duration
Every month, lightnode charges 672 hours (28 days) for hosts with the same resource and configuration, and no charge will be charged for more than 672 hours. For example:
- If you deployed a host at 19:56:23 on 08-09 and did not release it, then:
- The billing cycle in August is: 08-09 19:00:00 to 09-01 00:00:00;
- The billing cycle in September is from 09-01 00:00:00 to 09-29 00:00:00 (672 hours have been reached).
- If you deploy a host on 08-01 19:56:23 and do not release it, then:
- The billing cycle in August is: 08-01 19:00:00 to 08-29 19:00:00; (672 hours)
- The billing cycle in September is from 09-01 00:00:00 to 09-29 00:00:00 (672 hours have been reached).
In the hour at the current time, after the resource is upgraded and configured, the account is released and settled according to the new configuration; In the hour at the current time, after the resource allocation is reduced, the account is released and settled according to the old configuration; In the hour at the current time, after a series of up-down allocation operations, the resource will be billed and settled according to the highest configuration;
Resource billing description
| The virtual machine is charged by the model, specification (CPU, memory), purchase time and the consumption of the purchased instance. | |
| IP in the network is not charged. It is charged according to the charging method selected by the user, and according to the duration, consumption, line type, etc. Please refer to the user console for specific charging; Pay-by-traffic: charge according to the traffic plan selected by the user and converted into the hourly traffic plan. If the usage is less than the hourly traffic plan, charge according to the hourly traffic plan. If it exceeds the hourly traffic plan, charge according to the actual usage (traffic unit price * actual usage). The monthly charge is the monthly traffic plan price. If it exceeds the traffic plan, the host will be limited to 10kbps; Pay-by-bandwidth: charging according to the bandwidth configuration and usage duration selected by the user. | |
| The default system disk is 50GB. Please refer to the user console for specific billing. When selecting a virtual machine, the payment cycle of the cloud disk service purchased is the same as that of the host. | |
| Currently, the public image provided by lightnode is free. |