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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Scammers in Asia! Once the balance of my account is below $1, they intensionally decrease the spec and band width of my vm. After topping up some balance again, now the server is working abnorma... See more

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Update 23-09-2022 : as of now lightnode capped bandwidth of their Bangladesh Dhaka Servers. Many Users including me suffering for this. Contacted weeks ago but no solution. Thus I'm reducing the re... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolute horrible service The service is extremely overpriced and uderqualified, for 8$ a month you only get 1TB of traffic and the bandwidth is capped out at 100mb/s with horrible specs! and you ca... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolutely terrible experience. The payment system did not work properly. Money was charged from my account, but the balance was never credited. Support did not respond for days, and because of... See more

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  1. Cloud Computing Service

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LightNode was established in 2002. At present, we have more than 500 employees. LightNode is self-developed and provides essential IT infrastructure resources such as computing, storage, network and security. We provide hybrid cloud computing services and cloud-based operations and maintenance management services based on our intellectual property management platform. LightNode advocates the concept of "technology-driven products, operation and maintenance driven services", and constantly introduces products and services suitable for the industry characteristics. At present, LightNode has provided solutions and hybrid cloud services for a large number of IT deployment services in the direction of games, e-commerce, finance, pan entertainment, enterprises and institutions.


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TrustScore 2 out of 5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

AVOID THOSE SCAMERS

I had a server with my whole work set-up there and one day after I upgraded to a better machine and payed for it, it crashed. It has been three weeks and no one is replaying for a ticket that I made, for my emails and on the chat. I feel like I have been robed. Because I was. 40USD down the drain. DONT USE IT.

17 January 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolutely terrible experience.

Absolutely terrible experience.

The payment system did not work properly. Money was charged from my account, but the balance was never credited. Support did not respond for days, and because of their failure to process the payment, my server was deleted.

Funds taken. No balance update. No support. Server gone.

This is beyond unprofessional — it’s a complete breakdown of service and responsibility. I would strongly advise anyone to think twice before trusting this company with their money or infrastructure.

17 February 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Support doesn't exist

Support doesn't exist, I've had a ticket pending for 2.5 weeks without a response. They push you to deposit extra credits to your account, once you realise that the service is unusable, it's too late, you can't take out the credit anymore.

8 February 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Go better somewhere else

No, or very little price information without logging in. Tried to run a N8N app, the version is soooooo old, not usable at all. No ticket answer. Minimum topup of $10 before you can do anything. Bad GUI. And thats all before i can even start using their service. I'm going somewhere else.

For the ones complaining about scam and overcharging, the actual charge is in HK Dollar (which is ~8 times USD). So no scam on this part but not disclosed before either.

2 February 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Very bad at customer service

UPDATE! After about 2 weeks I got no answer and they deleted my server with it's entire data! It's a nightmare. Never trust them!
- Their website had a bug that got 404 error when tried to recharge. After some tries my account got suspended and after 4 days they haven't answered me yet. My whole business is down for 4 days and everything is getting ruined and still no one from lightnode gives an answer

1 February 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I think they are scammers

I think they are scammers, I tryed to add $10 into my account but it tries to get $100! I regected request in my account and check everything again, I chose to charge only $10 into my account but next time was same request come to my bank app as $100!! so simply I tried to delete my account but there is no delete account option!

15 January 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This is the scam company, the server is not as same as the advertisement

We ordered the bluestack server but we can not use the bluestack on the server, I try to contact the support for fixing and refund but no one cares us and no one replies us. They do not refund as well. We already sent the refund request 2 weeks but they do not address it.

This is the scam company, the server is not as same as the advertisement

21 October 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Worst customer service ever.

Worst customer service ever.
While requesting a quote for hosting capabilities, I got the answer "The price is too high. Do you really need to know it?"

12 October 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

HORRIBLE, JUST HORRIBLE

Without any notification, they (!) deleted 2 my already working VPS because of (!) "out of capacity". I'm just speaking to the void in the support, they even didn't care to train their bot to react to "alive person needed", you can just select an option in the chat and that's all.

Being a CTO of a startup, and being a developer for over a 15 years, ordering all kinds of hosting, VPS, dedicated, GPU etc. all the time, with all my confidence I can assure you that Lightnode is truly unique, I was never treated as absolutely nothing never before.

For all new clients considering Lightnode I strongly recommend to do not even look this way.

All existing Lightnode clients I urge to IMMEDIATELY change your provider because your business is in danger, you can just wake up next morning with your servers gone.

9 October 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Lightnode

They provide the best and most diverse services. I hope it continues with the same quality. Thank you for everything

4 June 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 4 out of 5 stars

The service is good.

The service is good.

Now we have 3 VMs in México, 'cause we use it for VPN Wireguard tunnels for a dedicated servers under cg-nat.

The ping is the best ever tested comparated with another VM providers in México. But, the network speed is low, they only give 100 Mbps and the max of 1 IPv4 Address per instance.

10 September 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

VPS speed and support horrible

Bought a VPS, and the port/internet speed is 2 Mbps? The slowest VPS I had in my life.
Have been waiting for a support answer for 3-4 days, but they don't even care to reply regarding the speed issue.
The best you can do, obviously, is to stay away from LightNode.

9 August 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Scammer company - avoid

Scammer company - Avoid!

Setting up account. Added credits. Built VPS only for them to disable services and block account with no notification a day later.

Customer support is non responsive with no ability to get a refund.

Reported to payment services

31 July 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Do not use this if you have sensitive job…

Do not use this if you have sensitive job. They easily freeze your account without telling why!!! without notice! and when I want to find why, I can not even login to my account! I emailed to them, I send support to online chat, but your time is not important to them.

31 July 2025
Unprompted review

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