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How am I billed?
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Q: Am I charged while my Droplet is in a powered-off state?
A: Yes. Your diskspace, CPU, RAM, and IP address are all reserved while your Droplet is powered off. If you want to save a Droplet for future use take a snapshot of it and then destroy it. You'll be able to create a new Droplet from the snapshot image anytime to bring it back online.
https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing
So let say for example I didn’t used my droplet for the whole month? Is the charge still $10 for 1GB RAM 30GB SSD ? Or does it has something kind of less payment? Is the reservation value vs Monthly rate is the same?
Yes, you will still be charged $10 for the droplet. This is because your droplet’s disk space, CPU, RAM, and IP addresses are all reserved for your droplet even if you are not using it or if it is powered off.
As for the hourly/monthly rate, there is no difference between monthly and hourly billing. All droplets are billed hourly, up until a monthly cap. We have estimated that each month has about 672 hours (28 days). If you use your server for less than 672 hours during the month, you will be billed for each hour that you used it. If you use your server for more than 672 hours that month, you will be billed at the monthly cost, which is no greater than 672 hours.
Sorry to have mention my alternative but other VM that i using is not charging up while its power off.
By when you turn off your VM they will move your stuffs some where then resource of your VM will
be clear for other person to be use but all of your stuffs still keeping somewhere else. This thing is
called Azure but for rate in bandwidth and resource is quite expensive. So if DO can use this idea to
handle how VM will poweroff and let other using these resource. :P
Hi,
In the website Homepage, i see a data at the end of the page which says “2,919,012 Droplets Launched”.
Is this the count for the active droplets billed till date? or do this even include the inactive droplets?