Tencent Cloud Lighthouse

Tencent Cloud Lighthouse
Purchase Guide
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Contents
Purchase Guide
Billing Overview
Price Overview
Purchase Methods
Overdue Payments and Service Suspension
Refund Policies
Bundle Upgrade Fee©2013-2022 Tencent Cloud. All rights reserved.

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Purchase Guide
Billing Overview：

Last updated 2022-08-15 18:03:47
This document lists the billing details of Lighthouse instances, including basic bundle, out-of-plan data transfer,custom image, and cloud disk.

Basic Bundle
Lighthouse is sold as instance bundles at favorable prices, which contain Tencent Cloud server resources such asCPU, memory, SSD cloud disk, and network data transfer plan. If the resources in a bundle cannot meet yourrequirements, you can apply for additional resources by purchasing out-of-plan data transfer.

Billing Mode
The basic bundle currently is available only through monthly subscription. Monthly subscription is a prepaid billingmode, where you need to pay the fees for one or multiple months or even years in advance. The billing cycle is anatural month. For example,
If you purchased a Lighthouse instance at 00:00:00 on May 1, 2021 for 1 month, the monthly subscription billing cycle
would be from 00:00:00 on May 1 to 23:59:59 on May 31.
If you purchased a Lighthouse instance at 00:00:00 on February 28, 2022 for 2 months, the monthly subscription
duration would be from 00:00:00 on February 28 to 23:59:59 on April 30. The first billing cycle will end at 00:00:00 on
March 31. The instance will expire at 23:59:59 on April 30.

Service Suspension Due to Overdue Payments
An instance will enter the pending released status upon expiration and can be recovered if you renew it within 7
days.
If the "pending released" instance is not renewed, it will be released, and the data in the instance will be cleared andcannot be recovered. For details, see Overdue Payments and Service Suspension. Please note the instance status forrenewing the instance or transferring data in time.

Data transfer plan
The Lighthouse bundles are offered in the form of data transfer plans, which counts only the instance outbound datatransfer. The data transfer plan will be reset every natural month from the time of instance purchase, and the reset
time is consistent with that of the instance billing cycle. If your instance data transfer in the current month.
Does not exceed the limit: The remaining data transfer of the current month will not be refunded.

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Exceeded the limit: The excessive data transfer is billed by usage. For data transfer pricing, see Out-of-plan Data
Transfer Pricing.

Basic Bundle Pricing
For information on the basic bundle price and discounts, see Basic Bundle Pricing.

Out-of-plan Data Transfer
The out-of-plan data transfer is billed by the outbound data, i.e., total volume of data transferred over the public
network in GB.

Billing Mode
The data exceeded the monthly data transfer limit is billed at out-of-plan data transfer price and settled by hour.

Service Suspension Due to Overdue Payments
When your account has overdue payments, all instances that exceed the monthly data transfer limit will transfer data
and be deducted normally within 2 hours, but after that, they will be suspended. To make them available again, please
top up your account until the balance is positive, or wait until the data transfer is reset on a monthly basis. Overdue
payments will not affect the instances that do not exceed the monthly data transfer limit.

Out-of-plan Data Transfer Pricing
For more information, see Out-of-plan Data Transfer Pricing.

Custom Image Pricing
Billing Mode
The billing involves the custom images that exceeded the free tier in the region and is settled by hour. When
deleting custom images, the part of the usage time less than one hour will be settled by one hour.
Note:
A free tire of five custom images is provided in each region.

Pricing information
The unit price of excessive custom images is 0.0015 USD/hour.

Overdue Payment
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The custom image feature will be disabled, and you cannot create more custom images.
Existing custom images under the account (including images within the free tier) will be isolated and unavailable andenter the "pending released" status. The unreleased images that exceed the free tier will continue to be billeduntil them are deleted. If you do not top up your account to make the balance positive after the custom images are"pending released" for 7 days, the custom images will be automatically deleted.

Related Operations
You can create the custom images in the Lighthouse console. For more information, see Working with Custom
Images.

Cloud Disk Pricing
Billing Mode
The cloud disk currently is available only through monthly subscription. Monthly subscription is a prepaid billing mode,
where you need to pay the fees for one or multiple months or even years in advance.

Pricing information
For more information on cloud disk pricing and discounts, see Cloud Disk Pricing.

Overdue Payment
A cloud disk will enter the pending released status upon expiration and can be recovered if you renew it within sevendays.
If you do not renew the cloud disk within seven days, it will be released, and the data in it will be cleared and cannot berecovered. Please note the cloud disk status to renew the disk or transfer data in time.

Refund Policy
Cloud disks support 5-day free returns and standard returns. For more information, see Refund.

Related Operations
You can create, attach and terminate cloud disks in the Lighthouse console. For more information, see Working with
Cloud Disks.

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Price Overview：

Last updated 2024-03-14 11:21:46
This document lists the pricing details of Lighthouse instances, including basic bundle, out-of-plan data transfer,custom image, and cloud disk. For details on the billing mode, payment overdue policy, and refund policy, see Billing
Overview.

Basic Bundle Pricing
Note:Linux bundle: Uses a Linux system image or an application image based on Linux.
Windows bundle: Uses a Windows Server system image or an ASP.NET application image.
Any bundle not included in the table has been discontinued. Discontinued bundles are no longer purchasable but canbe renewed at the original price. We recommend you upgrade a discontinued bundle. For more information, see
Upgrading Instance Bundle.

Singapore/Tokyo/Silicon Valley/Frankfurt/Mumbai/Toronto/Jakarta/Seoul/São Paulo
Linux Bundles
Windows Bundles
BundleType

Starter
Linux

GeneralMonthly DataCPU
(core)

Memory(GB)

System Disk
- SSD (GB)

Bandwidth(Mbps)

2

2

40

20

512

4.20

2

2

50

30

1,024

4.50

2

4

60

30

1,536

6.00

2

4

70

30

2,048

7.50

2

8

80

30

2,560

10.00

2

8

100

30

3,072

12.50

2

2

60

30

1,024

5.00

2

2

70

30

2,048

6.50

2

4

90

30

2,560

8.50

Transfer
(GB)

Price
(USD/Month)Linux©2013-2022 Tencent Cloud. All rights reserved.

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BundleType

Starter
Windows

GeneralWindows

2

4

100

30

3,072

10.00

2

8

120

30

3,584

14.50

2

8

150

30

4,096

18.50

4

8

180

35

5,120

36.00

4

16

220

40

6,144

54.00

8

16

300

45

7,168

78.00

8

32

380

50

8,192

105.00

16

32

450

55

9,216

156.00

16

64

540

60

10,240206.00CPU(core)

Memory(GB)

System Disk
- SSD (GB)

Bandwidth(Mbps)

2

2

40

20

512

6.00

2

2

50

30

1,024

6.50

2

4

60

30

1,536

9.00

2

4

70

30

2,048

11.50

2

8

80

30

2,560

17.00

2

8

100

30

3,072

22.00

2

2

60

30

1,024

7.50

2

2

70

30

2,048

10.00

2

4

90

30

2,560

13.50

2

4

100

30

3,072

17.00

2

8

120

30

3,584

25.00

2

8

150

30

4,096

32.00

4

8

180

35

5,120

63.00

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Monthly Data
Transfer
(GB)

Price
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4

16

220

40

6,144

92.00

8

16

300

45

7,168

136.00

8

32

380

50

8,192

185.00

16

32

450

55

9,216

275.00

16

64

540

60

10,240360.00Hong Kong (China)
Linux Bundles
Windows Bundles
Monthly
BundleCPU

MemorySystem Disk -Bandwidth

Data

Price

Type

(core)(GB)

SSD (GB)(Mbps)

Transfer(GB)(USD/Month)

4

8

180

35

5,120

36.00

4

16

220

40

6,144

54.00

8

16

300

45

7,168

78.00

8

32

380

50

8,192

105.00

16

32

450

55

9,216

156.00

16

64

540

60

10,240206.00GeneralLinux

Monthly
BundleCPU

MemorySystem Disk

Bandwidth

Data

Price

Type

(core)(GB)- SSD (GB)(Mbps)

Transfer(GB)(USD/Month)

General

4

8

180

35

5,120

63.00

4

16

220

40

6,144

92.00

8

16

300

45

7,168

136.00

8

32

380

50

8,192

185.00Windows©2013-2022 Tencent Cloud. All rights reserved.

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16

32

450

55

9,216

275.00

16

64

540

60

10,240360.00Out-of-Plan Data Transfer Pricing
RegionPrice (USD/GB)

Tokyo

0.13

Hong Kong (China), Seoul, and Jakarta

0.12

Silicon Valley, Frankfurt, and Toronto

0.077

Mumbai0.1

Singapore

0.081

Custom Image Pricing
A free tier of five custom images is provided for each region, and the unit price of excessive ones is 0.0015 USD/hour.

CBS Pricing
Pricing Information
Monthly Subscription Price (Unit: USD/GB/Month)
CBS Pricing Information
High-Performance CBS

SSD CBS

Silicon Valley

0.05

0.16

Hong Kong (China) and Toronto

0.05

0.17

Frankfurt, Singapore, Mumbai, and Jakarta

0.05

0.18

Seoul

0.05

0.19

Tokyo

0.05

0.22

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Purchase Methods：

Last updated 2022-06-16 19:07:34

Purchasing in Console
1. Log in to the Lighthouse purchase page and configure the following information as prompted:

Region: We recommend you select the region closest to your end users to minimize the access latency and improve
the access speed.
Availability zone: Randomly assigned is selected by default. You can select one as well.

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Note:
Instances in the same region can communicate with each other over the private network. For applications with highdisaster recovery requirements, deploy Lighthouse instances to different AZs in the same region to ensure fault
isolation. Note that it may cause a higher communication latency.
After creating an instance, you cannot change its AZ.
Image: You can choose application images, system images, Docker images, custom images, and shared images. For
more information, see Image.
Instance bundle:Different bundles have different specifications of CPU, memory, SSD storage, bandwidth, and datatransfer package. For more information, see Basic Bundle Overview.
Instance name: Enter a custom instance name. If it is left empty, the selected image name will be used as the nameby default. When multiple instances are created in a batch, their names will be consecutive with auto-incrementing
suffixes. For example, if you enter "LH" as the name and select 3 as the quantity, 3 instances "LH1", "LH2", and "LH3"
will be created.
Login method: If you select a Windows image, you can use this option to set the login password of the instance:
Set password: Set the custom password for instance login.
Random password: The system sends an automatically generated password to your Message Center.
Purchase period: It indicates the validity of the Lighthouse instance.
Note:
You can select Auto-renew the device every month when my account has sufficient balance to enable theauto-renewal feature. After successfully creating an instance, you can modify the current auto-renewal settings as
instructed in Auto-Renewal.
Quantity: It indicates the number of Lighthouse instances to be purchased.
2. Click Buy now.
3. Make sure the configuration information is correct, click Submit order and make the payment as prompted.
After making the payment, you can enter the Lighthouse console to check your Lighthouse instance. Generally, ittakes 1-3 minutes to create an instance.

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Overdue Payments and Service Suspension：

Last updated 2024-01-10 17:09:29
Note:
If you are a customer of a Tencent Cloud partner, the rules regarding resources when there are overdue payments are
subject to the agreement between you and the partner.

Overdue Payments and Service Suspension
Lighthouse instance packages are prepaid. Generally, if your account has overdue payments, instance usage will not
be affected. However, if your account and instances meet the following conditions at the same time, your instances will
be suspended due to overdue payments and displayed as in to be repossessed status in the Lighthouse console.
Condition 1: the account has overdue payments.
Condition 2: the instances use traffic packages, and the current monthly traffic usage has exceeded the package limit.

Impact of Overdue Payments
Impact on instance
Instances in to be repossessed status are unavailable, which indicates that they can neither be managed noraccessed.

Impact on custom image
The custom image feature will be disabled, and you cannot create more custom images.
All custom images (including those within the free tier) under your account will enter the to be repossessed status. If
you don't top up your account within seven days, the custom images will be automatically released.

Recovery Method
Recover an account in arrears: you can top up or use other methods to make your account balance positive, and thenall instances in to be repossessed status will be automatically recovered.
Recover an instance with excessive traffic usage: an instance that is purchased for multiple months can become
available from the to be repossessed status after its monthly traffic package is reset. If the instance generates
excessive traffic again, it will enter the to be repossessed status again.

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Alert Description
Alert Type
Alert forexpiration
Alert foroverduepayments

Description
From seven days before your resource expires, the system will send alerts for expiration to yourTencent Cloud account creator, global resource collaborators, and financial collaborators by email
and SMS.
On the day of and after resource expiration, the system will send alerts for service suspension to
your Tencent Cloud account creator and all collaborators by email and SMS.

Repossession Mechanism
From seven days before your resource expires, the system will send you renewal notifications.
If your account balance is sufficient and you previously enabled auto-renewal, the instance will be automaticallyrenewed on the expiration date.
If your Lighthouse instance is not renewed before or upon expiration, the system will suspend it in around 48 hours
after expiration (the instance will be disconnected and shut down, and only the data will be retained). Aftersuspension, the instance will enter the to be repossessed status.
You can still renew the instance within seven days after suspension.
Note:
The start time of the renewal cycle of an instance that is recovered after renewal is the time of the last suspension.
If your Lighthouse instance is not renewed within seven (included) days after entering the to be repossessed status,
the system will release it in around 24 hours. After release, all data on the instance will be cleared and cannot berecovered.

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Refund Policies：

Last updated 2024-03-15 10:17:10
Each Tencent Cloud account can return 30 instances in each Lighthouse bundle and 199 cloud disks (used asdata disks) per year in the method of standard returns.
Note:
If you purchase the instance at a discount price, then the discount amount is non-refundable.
All the refund amount will be credited into your Tencent Cloud account.
Standard returns are not available for Tencent Cloud International agent customers.

Standard Returns
Policies:
Under each account:
30 instances per bundle can be returned in the console each year.
199 cloud disks (used as data disks) can be returned in the console each year.
The refund amount does not include fees for usage duration, and will be credited to your Tencent Cloud account in the
proportion of the cash and free credit used at the time of purchase.
The refund formula is: Refund = Payment amount - (usage duration / total duration) × "original order price"
Note:
The usage duration is calculated by day. The duration less than one day is calculated by one day.

SamplesNote:
The following prices are for demonstration only but not actual prices at the official website. The actual unit prices,which may vary by region, campaign, or policy, shall prevail.
Lighthouse instance
Cloud disk (Data disk)
Scenario
The instance is in Singapore region. It uses a system image based on CentOS 7.6. Its bundle specification is 2 CPU
cores, 2 GB memory, 30 GB SSD cloud disk, 30 Mbps bandwidth, and 1024 GB monthly data transfer. Purchase thisinstance for 1 year with a 60% discount.
The original order amount is: 5 USD × 12 months = 60 USD
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The instance has been used for 30 days and is needed to be returned due to business changes. The standard return
quota of 30 instances for this bundle has not been used up under this account.
The refund is 24 USD - (30 days/365 days) × 60 USD = 19.07 USD
Note:
24 USD is the actual payment amount for the order, and 60 USD is the original order price.
Scenario
Purchase a 100GB premium cloud disk in Singapore region at a 20 % discount for 1 year. The original cloud disk
price is 5 USD/month.
The original order amount is: 5 USD × 12 months = 60 USD
The actual payment amount is: 5 USD × 12 months × 0.8 = 48 USD
Standard return sample
The cloud disk has been used for 30 days and is needed to be returned due to business changes. The standard return
quota of 199 cloud disks (used as data disks) for this account has not been used up.
The refund is 48 USD - (30 days/365 days) × 60 USD = 43.07 USD
Note:
48 USD is the actual payment amount for the order, and 60 USD is the original order price.

Refund Operation
If you meet the rules for the above-mentioned returns, do the following:
Manually terminate the Lighthouse instance as instructed in Terminating Instance.
Manually terminate the cloud disk used as data disk as instructed in Terminating Cloud Disks.
Note:
After the instance and the cloud disk are terminated, the system will automatically proceed to the refund process.
Generally, after you return a Lighthouse instance and the cloud disk(s), the refund amount will be automaticallycredited into your Tencent Cloud account in half an hour.

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Bundle Upgrade Fee：

Last updated 2022-10-28 17:11:19
To upgrade the Lighthouse instance specifications, you need to upgrade the instance bundles in the console. The
upgrade takes effect immediately.
Note:
For directions on instance bundle upgrade, see Upgrading Instance Bundle.

Billing Rule
The upgrade fee is calculated according to the price difference between the new and original bundles and the length of
upgrade period.
Upgrade fee = (New bundle monthly rate * Remaining months * Applicable discount) - (Original bundle monthly rate *Remaining validity in months * Original discount)
The number of remaining months is converted from the number of remaining days.
Remaining days = Expiration date - Current dateConverted remaining months = Remaining days / (365 / 12)
Discount: It varies by the instance region and usage period. For details, see Basic Bundle Pricing.
The upgrade does not affect the resource expiration date.
You can pay the upgrade fee by using your vouchers and free credits.
Note:
Note that if the original bundle was purchased with a special price, the special price is not used for the upgrade fee
calculation. Instead, the official listed monthly price is used.

Data Transfer Plan
After you upgrade an instance bundle, the data transfer plan follows the following rule:
The current traffic usage of the instance is not changed. Only the quota of the monthly data transfer plan is upgraded.
Assume that the data plan of the original bundle is 200 GB, and 100 GB has been used in this month. If the data planof the new bundle is 500 GB, then the remaining quota for this month is 400 GB.
If the instance is upgraded from bandwidth-based billing to a data transfer plan, the all quota of the transfer plan isgranted.

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Note:
The following prices are for demonstration only. For the accurate bundle prices, see Basic Bundle Pricing.
ExampleSpecification

Purchased a one-year bundle in Hong Kong (China)
on Dec 31, 2021.

On May 1, 2022, upgraded thebundle as below:

Price: 5 USD/month
CPU: 2 core
MEM: 2 GB

Price: 22 USD/month
CPU: 2 core
MEM: 8 GB

SSD system disk: 30 GB
Bandwidth: 30 Mbps
Monthly data transfer: 1024 GB

SSD system disk: 100 GB
Bandwidth: 30 Mbps
Monthly data transfer: 4096 GB

In this case, the upgrade fee is calculated as below:
Remaining days = 31 * 4 + 30 × 3 + 30 = 244 days.
Here, 4 stands for four months: July, August, October, and December, 3 stands for three months: June, September,and November, and the 30 at the end is the number of remaining days in May (31 - 1 = 30).
Remaining months = 244 / (365 / 12)
Discount:
According to the validity of the new bundle, a 12% discount is offered as described in the official price list.
There is no discount for the original bundle.
Upgrade fees = (22 * 244 / (365 / 12) * 0.88) - (5 * 244 / (365 / 12) * 1) = 115.17 USD.

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