{"id":8993,"date":"2019-08-30T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/?p=8993"},"modified":"2019-10-18T02:29:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T09:29:52","slug":"charging-for-vps-by-the-hour-of-runtime-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/?p=8993","title":{"rendered":"Charging for VPS &#8220;By The Hour&#8221; of Runtime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;re constantly innovating, internally or for customers, and we now have our &#8220;Pay By the Hour&#8221; for VPS runtime product released in the form of &#8216;VPS Options&#8217;, with this functionality deployed in a &#8216;public beta&#8217; at this product&#8217;s initial launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our &#8220;Per Hour Charging&#8221; for VPS means that customers can purchase a VPS product on our website and once provisioned, they can fund its ongoing operation (runtime, where the VPS is booted and online) through the purchase of our &#8220;Cloud Credits&#8221; products, which provide a &#8216;Credit Balance&#8217; from which the hourly operation of VPS services can be funded. In order to interoperate with our Paypal based payment method, we continue to have a base VPS monthly fee, funded via Paypal Subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cloud Credits are currently set at 1 Cent in value, so 100 Cloud Credits of credit for your VPS is purchased with just $1 of Cloud Credits on our website, and we have a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.networkpresence.com.au\/professional-services\/cloud-credits-5-122-178-detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">1000<\/a> ($11 inc GST), <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.networkpresence.com.au\/professional-services\/cloud-credits-5-122-detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">5000<\/a> ($50 inc GST) and higher Cloud Credits products on our website to provide for the funding of VPS which are charged for &#8220;by the hour&#8221; of the VPS runtime, and these extra Cloud Credits products can be purchased with a once-only Paypal payment (not the default Paypal subscription which creates a monthly recurring payment) through our checkout process. We also offer discounts for larger up-front Cloud Credit purchases, so you can purchase 5000 Cloud Credits for $50, and still use them at the $1\/Credit rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please do note that all our listed prices are in Australian Dollars and include the Australian GST.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can view your VPS available Cloud Credits and its Runtime stats in the web-based VPS Management &#8216;Usage&#8217; pages for that VPS. Our API will report your Cloud Credit balance and other runtime relevant information soon this coming week now too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VPS that are &#8216;stopped&#8217; don&#8217;t incur any Cloud Credits while they aren&#8217;t running, but still have their VPS Plan&#8217;s &#8220;minumum monthly spend&#8221; charged (which is typically between 50% (for cheapest VPS Plans) to 10% of their full month runtime cost) which funds the VPS&#8217; resources allocated and available on a monthly recurring basis, even when the VPS is stopped or not running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The base monthly fee for a Runtime VPS Plan does include some Cloud Credits, currently at the rate of 50% of the value of the VPS Plan&#8217;s monthly fee. eg: If your Runtime based VPS Plan is $5\/month minimum cost, then you&#8217;ll get 250 Cloud Credit each month to fund that VPS runtime included with the monthly fee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VPS that have run out of Cloud Credits are shutdown soon after their last funded period of runtime, and suspended from running\/being started until their Account has Cloud Credits available again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll post more information and such about our Pay By The Hour of Runtime VPS Options and product available across our VPS Plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FYI and regards,<br>Richard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re constantly innovating, internally or for customers, and we now have our &#8220;Pay By the Hour&#8221; for VPS runtime product released in the form of &#8216;VPS Options&#8217;, with this functionality deployed in a &#8216;public beta&#8217; at this product&#8217;s initial launch. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/?p=8993\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8995,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993\/revisions\/8995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}