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LightNode's documented payment flow starts in Finance > Payment, where you recharge account balance and then deploy from the console. SolCard fits that structure because the funding event happens before the server is launched, not as a long contract invoice.

LightNode bills by the hour and counts anything under one hour as a full hour, but it also caps billing at 672 hours in a month for hosts with the same resource and configuration. That makes SolCard practical whether you are spinning up a quick regional test or leaving a node online all month.

LightNode explicitly says charges continue when a host is stopped and only end after the host is released. If you keep paused machines around for later use, snapshots, or troubleshooting, you still need balance available while they sit idle.

Internet billing is not one-size-fits-all on LightNode. You can choose pay-by-traffic or pay-by-bandwidth, and the traffic plan converts into hourly allowance, bills overages by actual usage, and can throttle the host after the monthly plan is exceeded.

LightNode lets you upgrade or downgrade a stopped instance on the same node, but the billing rules are specific: upgrades settle at the new configuration, downgrades at the old one, and multiple changes in the same hour use the highest configuration. Traffic-billed hosts also cannot be downgraded.

LightNode says a region cannot be changed after a resource is created successfully. If you need a second geography, failover layout, or closer node for another audience, you usually launch another VPS instead of moving the first one, so flexible balance funding matters.