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Providers with hourly billing who advertise monthly prices where a "month" has less than 28 days
I am referring to providers that only have hourly billing, but also advertise monthly prices.
The most commonly used standards are 730 hours (365 days per year divided by 12 months x 24 hours), and 672 hours (28 days x 24 hours).
I've now discovered that there are providers who use less than 672 hours for a "month".
Not sure how they can do that when there are no months with less than 28 days, so you therefore always pay for less than a month and have to pay for the remainder of the month in your next billing cycle, every month.
This is also easy to overlook, so unless you take the time to compare their hourly and monthly prices, you end up getting charged more than the advertised monthly price.
Interested to hear how many other providers are doing this.
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I think that's the point.
Our formula for hourly servers is monthly price/730*3. Most providers are going to charge you a premium to use the servers hourly over using them monthly.
That's why I prefixed this post by clarifying that I'm referring to providers that only have hourly billing, but also advertise monthly prices for that hourly billing.
Do I get it right, you pay less for monthly subscription? Isn't it a normal thing, longer subscription is cheaper. What's the issue exactly.
What providers here use hourly
Is your complaint that the provider has one price for monthly, and one price for hourly, and if you take the latter and multiply it by 730, it's more than monthly?
Isn't that simply the provider giving you a discount for prepaying for monthly?
No. I'm talking about a provider that only has hourly billing with no option of monthly payments, and advertises "$1.87 MONTHLY ($0.003 hourly)" where the monthly price shown is for only 624 hours of the month.
26 days? Never heard of that. Probably just that one provider.
Are you sure that it's not a max of 624 hours so that 624 - 730 cost nothing?
Can you give some examples (i.e., links)? Just curious.
are you looking for hosting or is this just a debate about monthly and hourly comparisons.
The only hourly providers I've ever seen have an hourly rate but then it hits the max for the month and the rest of the month is "free." I've never seen one that does what the OP is talking about. As @raindog308 said, what company is doing this?
We use 730 hours in a month
They give you a discount for using a full month.
Pay per hour up to a maximum of 650 hours (or whatever number they choose) per month. I thought all of the per-hour providers did this..
It's most likely the cap at which after that amount of used hours you will pay 0 until the next billing period. Almost everyone do that (we don't).
https://my.caasify.com/modules/addons/caasify/views/view/create.php
This is just a discussion about this questionable pricing practice from certain providers.
That's the only case where such pricing is reasonable, but it seems certain providers actually charge flat per-hour rates with no discount for the month, despite advertising a monthly price which is less than what 28 days will actually cost.