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Hetzner, Aeza, Vultr and DigitalOcean have hourly billing i think.
intovps
I think VPS providers should charge per minute because you almost never fully use the last hour which amounts to a significant cumulative loss four people who use for short periods and actually embodies a higher price than declared.
Katapult & UpCloud also charge by the hour.
tensordock
Ramnode
Linode, Alibaba Cloud
Oneprovider, Lunanode, HostVDS
We think VPS providers should charge per second because you almost never fully use the last minute which amounts to a significant cumulative loss for people who use for short periods and actually embodies a higher price than declared.
We think VPS providers should charge per 1/60 of a second because you almost never fully use the last second which amounts to a significant cumulative loss for people who use for short periods and actually embodies a higher price than declared.
True, with all the computing power they have per second calculations/billing shouldn't be a problem I guess...
People often run multiple instances simultaneously for testing and whenever they wipe them they lose 20 or 30 cents at once for nothing.
What makes this even more blatant is that hourly VPS are relatively more expensive than their monthly counterparts in the first place.
I agree, I was charged 0.06 cents for using VPS for 2 hours and 17 minutes and lost millions
scaleway
OVH charges by the hour for their "public cloud"
Also https://www.virtua.cloud
That's how buying in bulk works. There are discounts for 12 months and longer, it makes sense that 1 hour is more expensive than a 1 month price.
They should be satisfied with the already higher prices without biting off extra money also for unused time. Charging per minute will stop this double celebration and create more clarity for the customer.
Charging per hour statistically means people lose 30 minutes for each of their VPS sessions.
Hi,
We offer vps at hourly rates: https://scaleblade.com/products/vps
What statistic is that?
Some finish early in their last hour (or the single hour), some finish late, so the average is the middle. When you're doing development and often run into problems along the way it's hard to predict how much time you'll need in advance.
We think VPS providers shouldn't charge because you just idle and not use. This results cumulative loss for people who use for short periods and actually embodies a higher price than declared.
There are methods, that pre-paid for 1 month.
and then if cancel before next billing date, refund the amount of not used.
it is great idea i think (few providers do that!!)
so like this
MonthlyPrice = 5
MonthInSec = 30 * 24 * 60 * 60
AmountOfUsed = ServiceActiveTimeInSec * (MonthlyPrice / MonthInSec)
Refund = MonthlyPrice - AmountOfUsed
(if im wrong sorry, i am really bad at math)
We think VPS providers should charge based on % of CPU, memory and disk used per millisecond because I have 0 users which amounts to no usage and a significant cumulative loss for people like me who have no users and actually embodies a higher price than declared.
A billing system based on % CPU (and MEM, Disk e.g.) usage is not possible because VPS providers need to reserve resources based on your contracted plan and guarantee a certain stability.
Also, if provider do not guarantee the reservation of resources, it is synonymous with not guaranteeing the stable operation of the VPS. (and to get profit, it will overloaded!! OH NO!)
For these reasons, there is no benefit to the VPS provider and no benefit to the customer.
For Example, VPS Provider have 100 GB totally and give you 50 GB of DISK.
but you only use 5 GB, but provider have to keep 50 GB for you.
even you are using only 5 GB of 50 GB.
VPS provider is wasting money because they allowcate you 50 GB but only you pay 5 GB.
And If VPS provider oversell for earn profit, then you will be unable to sort datas.
(Also they will need logic to check usage always....)
For other way, There are fully-customizable VPS Services, maybe you can use it.
If you need more 5 GB Disk, you can upgrade only Disk.
For example, MC-HOST24.DE is provide ROOT SERVER with full customizable.
You can customzie amount of core, ram, disk, and IP.
If you need more resource, then just upgrade it.
I use them before btw ( and good performance so )
I hope this helps
If you were not joking about that, railway.app offers minute by minute billing. Expect to pay $30 for 1 vCPU core and 1GB of memory + $25 for 100GB of storage + $100 for 1TiB of bandwidth. That's about $5 daily so the moment you go over 1440 minutes for a month, you might as well pay for a whole month on a normal LET provider and you might get 4x the CPU, 8x the memory, no bandwidth limit and even DDoS protection.
Hetzner cloud is great choice, reasonably priced, easy to use panel and steady performance especially on their arm vps.
rackdog bills by the hour, decent landscape to.
cheapest is $0.005/hr or $3/mo.