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Atlantic's per second billing
BeardyUnixGuy
Member
I'm unsure how long this has been in effect, but Atlantic's current website states that they do per second billing.
So, two questions:
- Has anyone taken advantage of this feature, and what savings have you realised with your usual workloads?
- Besides Atlantic, which other (cloud-ish?) providers offer per second billing as opposed to per hour?
Update: I see that Azure offers per minute billing
Comments
Regarding your first question:
Even with how many servers I deploy and delete after a few minutes, thus incurring a bill for one hour, Vultr is cheaper (and better) than Atlantic.net or Azure.
Taking hourly billing to the next step...
only makes economical sense when you're deploying very large instances for a short time.
That'll make you feel guilty about any command line typos.
Heh, yeah.
Yes, but not only for that scenario.
When comparing offerings with identical specs and price, then per second billing would always be cheaper than per minute/hour billing.
I agree that Vultr is cheaper than both Atlantic and Azure, but could you please elaborate on how else you think it's better than those two?
Selling gimmick, nothing more, nothing less...