In other words, is storage billing based on the physical disk space allocated on the instance, including table bloat, or only on the active data size?

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Except that if it was on a dedi to start with, you'd need root access to prepare the suspend to disk, as I said above. Otherwise, all you could do is shutdown and migrate. That is why the fact OP said

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I do have a VPS from @xHosts since quite some time, and it truly is a joy to use. Good connectivity, high traffic volume, decent processor and disk performance.

The machine went down, they copied the disk, installed a hypervisor, and booted the copy as a VM. Downtime was involved, just not announced.

DISK 50 GB

EnabledRAM : 31.3 GiBSwap : 0.0 KiBDisk : 295.2 GiBDistro : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)Kernel : 6.1.0-37-amd64VM Type : KVMIPv4/IPv6 : ❌ Offline / ✔ OnlineIPv6 Netwo

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| Plan Name | EMC | vCores | RAM | NVMe Disk | € / Core | € / GB RAM | € / GB Disk ||-----------|--------|--------|-------|-----------|----------|------------|-------------|| Easter S | €3.25 |

✔ EnabledRAM : 3.8 GiBSwap : 4.0 GiBDisk : 49.1 GiBDistro : Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)Kernel : 6.12.74+deb13+1-amd64VM Type : KVMIPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ OnlineIPv6 N

Oh, I see. It’s just very cheap. I thought unlimited bandwidth with a high-speed port at this price was a rare thing.

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DisabledRAM : 1.8 GiBSwap : 0.0 KiBDisk : 39.3 GiBDistro : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)Kernel : 6.1.0-27-amd64VM Type : KVMIPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ❌ OfflineIPv4 Networ

2GB RAM, 1xvCpu, 20GB disk, 1x IPv4, 1TB Monthly bandwidth - 2,50EUR/month

EnabledRAM : 31.3 GiBSwap : 0.0 KiBDisk : 295.2 GiBDistro : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)Kernel : 6.1.0-37-amd64VM Type : KVMIPv4/IPv6 : ❌ Offline / ✔ Onlinefio Disk S

1x vCPU, 1GB RAM, 20GB disk, 2 TB/month, 1xIPv4 - 2.49EUR+VAT/month

* Storage: High-speed NVMe storage.