- 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
Lighthouse is a new-gen cloud server service developed for lightweight use cases and has many advantages over traditional virtual private server (VPS) and virtual hosting services.
Note:
VPS: it uses server virtualization technologies to divide a single physical server into multiple virtual servers, each of which can have an independent IP address. You have complete admin permissions for your VPS servers and can configure them and install software programs on them as needed.
Virtual Hosting: aka shared web hosting, it allows multiple websites to share the same physical server (or cloud server service, i.e., virtual cloud hosting) at the underlying layer and uses a web server (such as Apache) to sustain these websites. The server has the runtime environments and databases used for website build preinstalled and hosts the database, network bandwidth, and storage resources shared by these websites. You have your own FTP permissions to upload webpage files to your own directory space. You have no permission to log in to the server's backend operating system; instead, you can only use virtual hosting to build websites.
The table below shows the feature comparison:
Feature | Lighthouse | VPS | Virtual Hosting |
Server lifecycle management | ✔ | ✔ | × |
Server power state management | ✔ | ✔ | × |
System image | ✔ | ✔ | × |
Application image | ✔ | × | × |
Quick application deployment (such as corporate website, blog, and forum) | ✔ | × | ✔ |
Application management | ✔ | × | × |
Independent IP | ✔ | ✔ | × |
Firewall | ✔ | ✔ | × |
Server monitoring | ✔ | ✔ | × |
Remote server login | ✔ | ✔ | × |
Integration with other Tencent Cloud services | ✔ | × | × |
Yes
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