Question
How much will it cost to frequently start up and tear down droplets?
- Posted on June 5, 2014
Asked by greg.h.vines
I can’t seem to find an answer to this question, but let’s say I want to do the following (assume a start time of 10:00 a.m.):
- Start up a droplet based on a snapshot.
- Run the droplet for a couple of minutes.
- Destroy the droplet.
- Five minutes later repeat steps 1-3.
- Fifteen minutes later repeat steps 1-3.
- Two hours later repeat steps 1-3.
What will be charged? $0.014 or $0.021?
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Okay. Thanks.
As soon as the droplet is on, you’re charged for an hour. <br>
Every time you spin up a server, you will be charged by the hour. So with your set up, if sounds like you will be spinning up a server 4 times, you would probably be charged $0.028