How is the monthly price calculated if it is a per-hour service?
Well, it's quite simple, all the Clouding services are billed per hours, although to help you understand the prices on our website a little bit better, we also offer you an approximation of the monthly price of your cloud server.
For example, each gigabyte of RAM is billed at € 0.00171 per hour, so depending on the usage the cost would be:
- 1 day (24 hours) => 24 x 0.00171€ = €0,04104
- 30 days (720 hours) => 720 x 0.00171€ = €1,23
- 31 days (744 hours) => 744 x 0.00171€ = €1,27
If you look at our website, you'll see that we've rounded the monthly price down to € 1.25. This is just because on average one month has approximately 30.5 days (365 days / 12 months = 30.41 days), which is about 730 hours, so as you might have guessed, the approximate monthly price of 1GB of RAM would be:
- 30.41 days (730 hours) => 730 x 0,0027 = €1,971
You may be thinking that the price of a cloud server in Clouding varies each month and you´d be absolutely right. In months of less than 30 days you'll be paying a little bit less and in months of 31days a little bit more, but the average will always be less than the monthly price calculated on our website.
Cost of Private Network (VPC)
As of October 1, 2024, each Private Network (VPC) you add will have a maximum cost of 1.00€ per month. That is, we will only charge for the time during which the network is created, with a maximum of 1.00€ per month (and the cost will be the same whether you assign the network to multiple servers or not). For example, if your network is active for 10 days, you will pay the time proportional to those days. This charge is made to ensure good use of this feature and prevent abuse of the platform.
Backups costs
The price is 0.02€ per GB per month (or 0.0000274€ per hour per GB).
The price is defined based on the size of your disk and how many copies you want to have.
The formula would be as follows:
(Size of your server disk * Number of backups to keep) * 0,02€.
The frequency does not affect the price: a Server with a 50GB disk for which you choose 4 backups with weekly frequency has a price of 4€. If you choose the same number of backups but set the frequency as daily the price will be the same: 4€.
Snapshots costs
The cost of Snapshots is not only very cheap but you can preview it in the control panel before creating a Snapshot.
The price is 0.02€ per GB per month (or 0.0000274€ per hour per GB).
Important Warning
Remember that the resources assigned to a Clouding cloud server will be billed even if the cloud server is turned off. You can archive your server and pay only for the contracted disk space, or you can delete it whenever you want and stop paying for it altogether.
How and when is the service billed?
Well, it’s very easy. It's a pre-paid system. You top-up the balance with the desired amount and this balance will reduce progressively as the server(s) you've created are used.
The balance will only be charged when you have created one or more servers. If you don´t have any server created but you do have balance, no worries! Your balance does not expire, and it'll be right there for you whenever you need it. The minimum balance to charge is €2. There is no flat fee or monthly rates.
There are two available ways to top-up:
- Manual top-up: you can top-up balance whenever you want to and for however much you want. We'll give you the option to save the payment method you have chosen, so it'll be quicker the next time you top-up. This is optional, though. If you'd rather not save it, you can do so. We want you to feel safe!
- Auto-Refill: you can set that it up so that each time your balance is lower than, for example, 20 euros, the system automatically tops up 20 more euros. You don´t have to worry about a thing and you'll never run out of balance!
Each time you top-up the balance, an invoice will be generated, it doesn´t matter if the amount is 5 euros or 100. You will get the invoice attached in an e-email and you can also download it from your client panel in pdf format.
Clouding is a pre-paid service. This way you can better monitor your expenses!
This system will allow you not only greater freedom when deciding how much you want to spend but also a greater monitoring of your expenses. You can see clearly and quickly your consumption with Clouding and this will let you optimize your budget.
4TB of data transfer included per Cloud Server
For each Cloud Server, we include at no additional cost 4TB (Terabytes) of transfer to the Internet. This is enough for your project (web, ecommerce, etc.) to receive a large number of visits and for your pages to load quickly.
But if you exceed these 4 TB, don't worry: the cost of each extra GB is only 0,004€ or 4€ per extra TB transferred.
How do we calculate the extra data transfer? Here we explain it to you:
If you have several cloud servers in your account, the data transfer is calculated for each server individually, not for all the servers you have in your account together.
To calculate the data transfer, we take into account both incoming and outgoing traffic and only count the highest value. So, for example, if your cloud server consumes 10 TB outgoing and 2 TB incoming, we only count 10 TB.