Terms of use, version 1.0

Who can use Node Lodge

Access is by invitation during the pilot. You use it on behalf of the organization named in your account, and you are responsible for everyone who uses your account and the machines you rent.

What you may not do

• Mine cryptocurrency, or run any workload whose main purpose is to consume the machine for that.
• Send spam or unsolicited email. Direct SMTP (TCP port 25) is blocked on rented machines.
• Scan, attack or disrupt other systems, or try to reach other renters’ machines or the provider’s infrastructure.
• Store or distribute content that is illegal where you or the provider operate, or that infringes others’ rights.
• Share your access with people outside your organization, or resell it.

Breaking these rules ends your sessions immediately and closes your access, without refund of credit.

Your sessions

• A data-center machine is created when your session starts and deleted, with everything on it, when the session ends. Copy your results off the machine before the end. There are no backups.
• Machines marked interruptible can be reclaimed by the provider at any time. Your session then ends and you are charged only for the time used.
• Only SSH from the address you give is allowed in. Your public key is installed for the session and removed afterwards.
• The pilot has no uptime commitment. An administrator can stop a session to protect the platform, the provider or other users.

Credit

Pilot credit is granted to your organization. A session reserves its maximum cost when you book it; when it ends, only the time actually used is deducted. Credit has no cash value, cannot be transferred, and may end with the pilot. No card is charged.

Your data

The account records your name, email address, organization, the IP addresses you allow for SSH, and a log of account and session actions, kept for security and billing reconciliation. Account emails are sent through Brevo (EU). Data-center machines run with infrastructure providers in the datacenter regions shown for each machine; what you put on a machine is processed there and deleted with it. To delete your account, email support@nodelodge.com at any time.

Responsibility

The pilot is provided as is, to test the service. To the extent the law allows, Node Lodge is not liable for lost data, lost work or indirect damage arising from its use.

Support

Questions about your account, credit or these terms: support@nodelodge.com.

Changes

When these terms change materially, the version above changes and you accept the new version before your next booking.