Lumen.com Lumen Network Storage, $ 2.50/mo. on Linux Cloud


Lumen Network Storage has been added on Jan 12, 2026
lumen.com
Lumen.com
100 CenturyLink Dr.
Monroe , LA 71203
US
☎ Phone +1 800-871-9244 [sales]
☎ Phone +1 877-453-8353[Enterprise and wholesale billing]
  • 💡 Plan Name: Lumen Network Storage (sku #p142342)
  • 🔧 Category: Cloud / Linux
  • 💰 Price:$ 2.50/mo.
  • 💿 Disk Space: 100 GB
  • 📶 Traffic bandwidth: unmetered
  • 💲 Setup Fee: free
🔌 Hosted domains :unlimited
🆓 free domains :0
📌 Dedicated IPs :0
💳 Payment Methods :Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
🔨 Control Panel :[In-house]
✍️ Support Options :Phone / Toll-FreeLive Chat
Targeting :AU HK IN JP SG UK US
screenshot of Lumen Network Storage from lumen.com

See also initial Lumen Network Storage plan location on their website!


*📜 Plan description

Lumen Network Storage is an enterprise storage service designed for edge and hybrid environments where applications need near-zero latency access to mission-critical datasets while retaining cloud-like flexibility and scale.

Key capabilities and how it is used:
- Storage on demand: deploy block, file, or object storage to the edge in minutes for private cloud, public cloud, or IoT/edge workloads without daily on-prem hardware management.
- Pay-as-you-go billing: capacity scales up or down as needed, aligning spend to consumption rather than fixed allocations.
- Hybrid and multi-cloud ready: designed to provide a consistent experience across Lumen Edge locations, customer premises, third-party colocations, and major public clouds.
- Performance flexibility: no long-term commitment required for capacity, speed, or performance tier; performance tiers can be changed as needs evolve.

Pricing (lowest listed rate used for Plan Price):
- Object storage: $0.025 per GB per month, with network egress at no additional cost.
- Adaptive block and file: $0.075 per GB per month plus IOPs usage.
- Listed rates are month-to-month, stated in USD, available to qualifying business customers, and exclude applicable taxes, fees, and surcharges. Availability varies by service area and credit approval and/or deposit may be required.

Security, resiliency, and data protection features:
- Encrypted storage keys and role-based access controls (RBAC) with audit logging to support governance and operational accountability.
- Point-in-time snapshots to help protect against accidental deletes and data corruption due to malware, with recovery options oriented to ransomware response workflows.
- Replication options to sync data to the closest storage node and replicate between edge locations or from a data center to the edge, supporting distributed application architectures and off-site protection strategies.

Operational experience:
- Simple portal interface to manage nodes and storage resources in a consistent way.
- Automated tiering to balance performance and cost across changing workload patterns.
- Backed by latency SLOs for workloads that require predictable response times at the edge.

Typical use cases include acquiring/analyzing/acting on data at the edge, optimizing storage costs for high-velocity or distributed datasets, supporting compliance/retention objectives, enabling application lifecycle management across environments, and acting as a storage foundation that can be paired with Lumen Data Protect for backup and recovery patterns.

Both Lumen Network Storage and Lumen Data Protect are positioned as edge compute and storage services for business customers that emphasize rapid deployment, self-service portal management, and usage-based consumption models rather than fixed-capacity contracts. Services may not be available everywhere and can vary by region and eligible service locations. Listed rates are presented as month-to-month USD pricing and generally exclude taxes and fees; additional commercial requirements such as credit approval or deposit may apply. Assistance is available through live chat, sales callback requests, and phone-based engagement for solution scoping and ordering support.

📄 Editorial Review

Lumen Technologies is a major American telecommunications, network infrastructure, cloud, and managed services company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana. Its history began in 1930, when William Clarke and Marie Williams acquired the Oak Ridge Telephone Company in Louisiana. The business later operated as Century Telephone, CenturyTel, and CenturyLink before adopting the Lumen Technologies name in 2020.

The acquisition of Level 3 Communications in November 2017 played an important role in shaping the present company. The transaction combined CenturyLink’s telecommunications and enterprise operations with Level 3’s international fiber backbone, Internet routing network, data centers, and large corporate customer base. Lumen later sold its EMEA business to Colt for approximately $1.8 billion in November 2023. A further $5.75 billion consumer fiber divestiture was completed in February 2026, leaving Lumen more concentrated on enterprise networking, managed infrastructure, cloud connectivity, security, and AI-related workloads.

Lumen is not a traditional shared web hosting company. It does not concentrate on inexpensive Linux hosting accounts, reseller hosting, entry-level WordPress packages, website builders, or cPanel plans for personal websites. Its infrastructure services are intended mainly for enterprises, government organizations, software platforms, financial institutions, content providers, and companies operating complex or geographically distributed applications.

Its main hosting-related services include Colocation, Edge Bare Metal, Edge Private Cloud, Managed Hosting, and Lumen Network Storage.

Colocation is available through individual cabinets, secured cages, private suites, cross-connects, and high-density power configurations. Customers can connect their equipment directly to Lumen Internet access, private networks, cloud platforms, managed security services, and disaster-recovery infrastructure. Optional Hands & Eyes support covers physical tasks such as equipment inspection, cable installation, hardware replacement, and basic onsite troubleshooting.

Edge Bare Metal provides dedicated single-tenant physical servers without sharing the underlying hardware with another customer. Servers can be provisioned in approximately one hour at supported locations. Customers can select operating systems, use APIs for automation, apply their own security policies, configure access permissions, and connect the servers directly to Lumen networking services.

The bare-metal platform covers more than 60 edge market nodes and places computing resources within approximately five milliseconds of as much as 97% of U.S. business demand. This architecture is well suited to latency-sensitive databases, media delivery, industrial systems, AI inference, gaming platforms, analytics, and applications that cannot operate efficiently from a distant centralized cloud region.

Edge Private Cloud is a fully managed private cloud built around hyperconverged infrastructure and VMware Cloud Foundation technologies. It can be installed in a Lumen hosting facility, inside a customer’s colocation area, at an eligible third-party data center, or directly on the customer’s premises.

Standard private-cloud configurations begin with 32 processing cores, 384 GB RAM, and 5 TB of usable SSD capacity. Larger configurations can reach 1.5 TB RAM and approximately 35 TB of usable SSD storage. Customers retain familiar VMware administration tools, while Lumen handles the hardware, software-defined data center, network integration, platform lifecycle, and underlying operational management.

Microsegmentation, disaster recovery, workload migration, and hybrid-cloud connectivity are available for organizations requiring dedicated infrastructure without maintaining the entire hardware and virtualization stack internally.

Managed Hosting combines dedicated infrastructure with equipment installation, operating-system configuration, bandwidth, monitoring, security, alerting, and onsite technical assistance. Monitoring can cover physical servers, routers, switches, websites, operating systems, applications, and databases. Customers can also receive service runbooks, trend analysis, engineering assistance, and a dedicated service-management contact.

Lumen Network Storage provides distributed block, file, and object storage close to applications and edge workloads. The platform includes snapshots, replication, automated storage tiering, performance objectives, and usage-based capacity. Object storage includes network egress without a separate egress charge, which can reduce costs for applications that regularly transfer large volumes of data.

The wider service portfolio includes Dedicated Internet Access, IP transit, wavelengths, dark fiber, Ethernet, SD-WAN, private IP networking, cloud interconnection, Network-as-a-Service, DDoS protection, managed firewalls, web application firewall services, threat intelligence, backup, cyber-resiliency services, and disaster recovery.

This combination allows organizations to purchase hosting infrastructure, storage, security, and network connectivity through a single enterprise provider rather than coordinating several unrelated vendors.

The main website is available in English, with regional sections for the United States, Australia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and Singapore. Online rates are primarily expressed in U.S. dollars, while international enterprise agreements can use contract-specific currencies and billing arrangements. The website uses a modern responsive layout and provides access to product information, technical documentation, legal conditions, network maps, service portals, and support resources.

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