{"rid":"compute/lighthouse-99","card":{"rid":"compute/lighthouse-99","eid":"lighthouse-99","topic":"compute","slug":"lighthouse-99","provider":"Lighthouse 99","url":"https://www.v2ex.com/t/1179248","domain":"v2ex.com","category":"cloud VM","tier":null,"verdict":"paid-only","vorder":3,"grp":"paid","confidence":"reported","binding":"volume-quota","identity_kind":"national-id","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":1,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":null,"egress_metered":null,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-22","stale_on":"2026-11-05","n_evidence":4,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"A Lighthouse instance in an overseas region at CNY 99 a year: 2 vCPU, 2 GiB RAM, 30 Mbps, 1000 GB a month, buyable by new and existing Tencent Cloud accounts...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":9},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"lighthouse-99","provider":"Lighthouse 99","url":"https://www.v2ex.com/t/1179248","category":"cloud VM","free_tier":{"stated":"A Lighthouse instance in an overseas region at CNY 99 a year: 2 vCPU, 2 GiB RAM, 30 Mbps, 1000 GB a month, buyable by new and existing Tencent Cloud accounts and renewable once at the same price, so CNY 198 covers two years. The next shape up is 2 vCPU / 4 GiB / 30 Mbps / 1500 GB at CNY 199 a year. Regions named across the threads are Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Silicon Valley, Frankfurt, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Beijing, and the plan includes free IP replacement.","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://www.v2ex.com/t/1179248","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"none"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.v2ex.com/t/1179248","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.v2ex.com/t/1179248","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.v2ex.com/t/1179248"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"CNY 99 for two years of a 30 Mbps overseas box is the cheapest credible origin, and it composes with a free CDN in front to take the 1 TB cap off the serving path the annual renewal is the only cliff.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"One terabyte a month at 30 Mbps is the first thing to bind, and at the stated port speed a full month of saturation would move far more than the cap, so the plan is a service box. The renewal limit is the second: the same price is good for one renewal only, after which the list price applies.","source":"https://www.v2ex.com/t/1179248"}],"limits_note":"One terabyte a month at 30 Mbps is the first thing to bind, and at the stated port speed a full month of saturation would move far more than the cap, so the plan is a service box. The renewal limit is the second: the same price is good for one renewal only, after which the list price applies.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"One terabyte a month at 30 Mbps is the first thing to bind, and at the stated port speed a full month of saturation would move far more than the cap, so the plan is a service box. The renewal limit is the second: the same price is good for one renewal only, after which the list price applies.","identity_cost":{"kind":"national-id","detail":"The promotion runs on the mainland storefront cloud.tencent.com, which requires a real-name verified account before any purchase; the international storefront tencentcloud.com sells Lighthouse separately and is not covered by this price.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"reported","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.v2ex.com/t/1179248","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the post states 境外 CN2/境内轻量服务器：2C+2GB+30Mbps+1000GB/月，不限新老用户，每年 99 元购买后可同价续费 1 年 and 2C+4GB+30Mbps+1500GB/月...每年 199 元, quoted from the snippet"},{"url":"https://www.v2ex.com/t/1125596","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"an earlier post states the offer 不限制腾讯云新老用户 and that the buyer can renew one more year at 99 元, quoted"},{"url":"https://www.v2ex.com/t/1198372","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"a later post lists the selectable regions as 新加坡、东京、首尔、硅谷、法兰克福、上海、广州、北京 and repeats the 99 元 starting price"},{"url":"https://cloud.tencent.com/act/pro/campus2026","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the campus page is live and lists 轻量应用服务器 2核2G, 2核4G and CVM 2核4G as the three student shapes, which is a different offer from the 99 yuan plan"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"The corpus holds tencent-cloud-international.json, which records the international free trial and marks it fails-identity, but it does not record this domestic promotion, so the cheapest Tencent shape was missing. The promotion recurs and the v2ex threads span several months, each restating the same configuration; no vendor page with the price was read, because the activity page is script-rendered, so this is reported rather than documented. The 528 yuan three-year domestic shape (2C4G 6M) is for first-time Lighthouse buyers only and is noted here rather than given its own record.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"regional-floor-price","free_tier_kind":"none","shape":{"vcpu":2,"ram_gib":2,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null,"disk_gib":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":2,"unit":"GiB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}