- Release Notes and Announcements
- User Guide
- Product Introduction
- Purchase Guide
- Getting Started
- Operation Guide
- Logging In to Linux Instances
- Logging in Windows Instance
- Managing Instances
- Working with Cloud Disks
- Managing Keys
- Managing Firewall
- Managing Snapshot
- Managing Image
- Private Network Interconnection
- OPS and Monitoring
- Access Management
- Transfering File
- Uploading Local Files to Lighthouse
- Uploading File from Windows to Linux Lighthouse Instance via WinSCP
- Uploading File from Windows to Lighthouse Instance via FTP
- Uploading File from Windows to Windows Lighthouse Instance via Remote Desktop Connection
- Uploading File from Linux or macOS to Linux Lighthouse Instance via SCP
- Uploading File from Linux or macOS to Lighthouse Instance via FTP
- Uploading File from Linux to Windows Lighthouse Instance via rdesktop
- Uploading File from macOS to Windows Lighthouse Instance via MRD
- Best Practices
- Ops Guide
- Troubleshooting
- API Documentation
- History
- Introduction
- API Category
- Making API Requests
- Instance APIs
- RenewInstances
- DescribeInstanceVncUrl
- DescribeInstancesDeniedActions
- DescribeInstancesDiskNum
- DescribeInstancesReturnable
- DescribeInstancesTrafficPackages
- DescribeModifyInstanceBundles
- DescribeResetInstanceBlueprints
- IsolateInstances
- ModifyInstancesBundle
- RebootInstances
- ResetInstance
- ResetInstancesPassword
- StartInstances
- StopInstances
- ModifyInstancesAttribute
- ModifyInstancesRenewFlag
- CreateInstances
- DescribeInstances
- TerminateInstances
- CBS APIs
- Snapshot APIs
- Key APIs
- CCN APIs
- Image APIs
- Firewall APIs
- Scene APIs
- Package APIs
- Quota APIs
- Region APIs
- Other APIs
- Data Types
- Error Codes
- FAQs
- Contact Us
- lighthouse Policy
- Release Notes and Announcements
- User Guide
- Product Introduction
- Purchase Guide
- Getting Started
- Operation Guide
- Logging In to Linux Instances
- Logging in Windows Instance
- Managing Instances
- Working with Cloud Disks
- Managing Keys
- Managing Firewall
- Managing Snapshot
- Managing Image
- Private Network Interconnection
- OPS and Monitoring
- Access Management
- Transfering File
- Uploading Local Files to Lighthouse
- Uploading File from Windows to Linux Lighthouse Instance via WinSCP
- Uploading File from Windows to Lighthouse Instance via FTP
- Uploading File from Windows to Windows Lighthouse Instance via Remote Desktop Connection
- Uploading File from Linux or macOS to Linux Lighthouse Instance via SCP
- Uploading File from Linux or macOS to Lighthouse Instance via FTP
- Uploading File from Linux to Windows Lighthouse Instance via rdesktop
- Uploading File from macOS to Windows Lighthouse Instance via MRD
- Best Practices
- Ops Guide
- Troubleshooting
- API Documentation
- History
- Introduction
- API Category
- Making API Requests
- Instance APIs
- RenewInstances
- DescribeInstanceVncUrl
- DescribeInstancesDeniedActions
- DescribeInstancesDiskNum
- DescribeInstancesReturnable
- DescribeInstancesTrafficPackages
- DescribeModifyInstanceBundles
- DescribeResetInstanceBlueprints
- IsolateInstances
- ModifyInstancesBundle
- RebootInstances
- ResetInstance
- ResetInstancesPassword
- StartInstances
- StopInstances
- ModifyInstancesAttribute
- ModifyInstancesRenewFlag
- CreateInstances
- DescribeInstances
- TerminateInstances
- CBS APIs
- Snapshot APIs
- Key APIs
- CCN APIs
- Image APIs
- Firewall APIs
- Scene APIs
- Package APIs
- Quota APIs
- Region APIs
- Other APIs
- Data Types
- Error Codes
- FAQs
- Contact Us
- lighthouse Policy
Compared with CVM, Lighthouse is easier to use and more suitable for SMEs, developers, cloud computing beginners, and students, as it simplifies CVM's advanced concepts and features. It offers high-bandwidth data transfer plans and integrates basic cloud services into cost-effective bundles. Such bundles contain popular open-source software programs perfect for lightweight use cases with low to medium load and moderate access requests, such as small and mid-sized websites, web applications, blogs, forums, mini games, ecommerce, cloud storage, and image hosting, as well as development, testing, and learning environments in the cloud.
Note:
When creating a Lighthouse instance, you cannot specify the CPU model of the underlying physical server; instead, Tencent Cloud will randomly assign a physical CPU model that meets the selected bundle specification.
At the same specification level, Lighthouse has a CPU and memory performance comparable with that of CVM.
The table below lists Lighthouse's strengths and main differences from CVM:
Strength | Lighthouse | CVM | |
Target user | | SMEs and individual developers | Large enterprises |
Lightweight scenario-oriented | | Lightweight use cases: Enterprise websites, blogs, forums, news, and product display General web applications WeChat mini programs and mini games Mobile apps, H5 apps, and WeChat Official Account E-commerce shops, individual websites Cloud storage and image hosting services Cloud-based development, testing, and learning environments | Use cases with complex architectures: High-concurrency websites Large games Complex distributed cluster applications Video encoding/decoding Big data analysis Machine learning and deep learning |
Favorable pricing | Selling method | Cost-effective bundles (combinations of computing/network/storage resources) | Flexible selection of computing/storage/network resources that are billed independently |
| Network billing | High-bandwidth data transfer plan | Fixed bandwidth/traffic usage |
Simpler use | Console operation | Integrated, independent, and simplified console | For all services, with more details of CVM, VPC, EIP, and security group involved |
| Application creation | Out-of-the-box and premium official application images, preset with the optimal combination of software stacks required by the application system Application creation in one minute as well as automatic installation of application software and runtime environment and initialization configuration | Application creation on your own |
| Networking | Automatic network resource creation without manual management needed | Network creation, configuration, and management on your own |
Note:
Compared with CVM, the main limits of Lighthouse at the functional level include the following:
An instance supports the overall upgrade of the configuration (computing, storage, and network) on a bundle basis but not bundle downgrade. For more information, see Upgrading Instance Bundle.
For the specific use limits of Lighthouse, see Use Limits.
There are certain limits on private network connectivity for Lighthouse. For more information, see Region and Network Connectivity.
Lighthouse cloud disks are independent of CVM cloud disks, which means Lighthouse cloud disks can only be attached to Lighthouse instances but not CVM instances.
For scenarios like high-concurrency websites, video encoding/decoding, large-scale games, and complex distributed cluster applications, it's recommended to use CVM. CVM provides rich instance models, such as Memory Optimized, High I/O, Big Data, Bare Metal, and GPU/FPGA Heterogeneous Computing. For more information, see CVM Instance Types.
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