How It Works
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SELECT A SIZE FOR YOUR CLOUD SERVER
Cloud Server sizes are measured by the amount of physical memory reserved for your instance and range from 256 MB up to 15.5 GB.
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SELECT YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM
Choose from a variety of popular Linux Distributions: Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Centos, Fedora, Arch and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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YOUR SERVER IS ONLINE IN JUST 24 HOURS
Each Cloud Server can be upgraded, downgraded, or removed as your needs change.
Cloud Computing - Starts at $18.25 per Day
Pricing for Cloud Server starts at $18.25 per Day plus bandwidth. Since you can pay by the day, it's really easy and affordable to spin up a new Cloud Server when you need the additional cloud computing power for testing or development–and then simply remove it when you're done
Scale Your Computing Power Up - And Down Again
If your site or application has big fluctuations in traffic or computing power needs – seasonal spikes around the holidays, for example – you can easily add more Cloud Servers, and then remove them once the demand subsides.
How We Price Cloud Server
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Server Size
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Linux®**
Hourly (Estimated Monthly)
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Windows®
Hourly (Estimated Monthly)
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256 MB RAM
10GB Disk
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$0.025/hr.
($18.25/mo.)*
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512 MB RAM
20GB Disk
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$0.045/hr.
($32.85/mo.)*
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1,024 MB RAM
40GB Disk
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$0.075/hr.
($54.75/mo.)*
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$0.095/hr.
($69.35/mo.)*
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2,048 MB RAM
80GB Disk
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$0.135/hr.
($98.55/mo.)*
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$0.175/hr.
($127.75/mo.)*
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4,096 MB RAM
160GB Disk
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$0.265/hr
($193.45/mo.)*
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$0.365/hr.
($266.45/mo.)*
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8,192 MB RAM
320GB Disk
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$0.515/hr.
($375.95/mo.)*
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$0.615/hr
($448.95/mo.)*
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15,872 MB RAM
620GB Disk
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$1.05/hr.
($766.50/mo.)*
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$1.15/hr.
($839.50/mo)*
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SQL Server images available on 2GB and higher Servers. Add 82¢/hour for SQL Server.
* Estimated monthly based on 730 hours of service.
** If you choose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the licensing fee is not included in the above pricing. In addition to the hourly charge, a $20 flat, monthly fee will be charged per server calculated based on the maximum number of RHEL Cloud Servers active at any point in time during the billing cycle. These fees will not be prorated based on usage.
Bandwidth Pricing
Each server size comes with 10GB of Banwidth In/Out. Additional bandwidth are as follows:
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22¢ / GB |
| Bandwidth In |
12¢ / GB |
Pricing for Cloud Servers™ Images
With Cloud Servers, you can create an image of any cloud server containing less than 80GB of data—and you can use this image to restore a server or clone a new one. You can create an unlimited number of images on-demand, or you can schedule an automatic daily or weekly image.
Images will be compressed and stored on Blitzconnect files at $0.15/GB per month. If you delete a cloud server, the associated image stored in Cloud Files will persist in your account unless the image is explicitly removed.
Additional IPs
Additional public IP addresses can be purchased for $5 / month.
FAQ
Imagine being able to provision a server in minutes or upgrade a server automatically. To bring servers up and down as needed. This is the idea behind Cloud Servers. Totally customizable, each Cloud Server gives you full root access to your Linux distribution of your choice. Your price depends on how large a server you buy.
Based on Xen Virtualization technology, Cloud Servers brings the power of the cloud to the traditional server hosting based model. Just like a dedicated server, your Cloud Server provides total flexibility for you to run anything you want from a Java website to a Ruby on Rails application.
With our Cloud Servers you can deploy one in a few minutes vs. waiting for a physical server deployment. You can also resize the plan and bring up multiple Cloud Servers quickly and easily for much less money.
Dedicated servers usually involve contracts and setup fees while they take time to alter the RAM, etc.
We bill daily because it allows us to cater to both your usual 24x7 server customer and also to the developer who may only need a server for a couple of days. For those who need the server for a couple of days only, they pay for the time the server is deployed, based on number of hours.
We show the monthly charge just for the clients who keep their servers running for an entire month. This makes it easier for those to translate what the daily cost would come out too in terms of a monthly equivalent.
Currently the server would either be running or you would have to delete it altogether. There is no "suspension" mode where you are not charged while not receiving traffic to the server.
Short answer, no. Cloud Servers can be resized to a different plan through our control panel, all the way up to 15.5 GB of RAM. Most common VPS offerings only offer the equivalent of 128MB up to 512MB RAM at most. With most VPS offerings, you are not guaranteed the resources that you are paying for, which means other customers could be infringing on your allotment.
We not only guarantee you will have the resources you are paying for when you need them, but you can also burst while additional resources are available.
Yes, you will get a private IP for each Cloud Server that offers free bandwidth between them.
You can login to the control panel and "resize" the server. It usually takes a few minutes, depending on the amount of data you have stored. If the resources you need are not available in that server, it will migrate all your data, including operating system and IP address, to another server in our environment.
Cloud Server host machines have dual quad core processors. Each Cloud Server is assigned four virtual cores and the amount of CPU cycles allocated to these cores is weighted based on the size of the Cloud Server. For example a 4G Cloud Server will have twice the weight of a 2G Cloud Server. In addition to these guaranteed minimum CPU cycles all Cloud Servers are capable of CPU bursting which allows them to utilize excess CPU cycles that are available on the host machine.
Cloud files is not block level storage, so it cannot be mounted. Customers do use cloud files to offload static files, such as media files for example. Typically media files do not change and will not need to be written to as a database would. At this time, you would have to upgrade the RAM in order to get more storage and vice versa.
We are working on this, however, right now you would have to pick from our Linux distributions and would not be able to export an image.
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