How do I Charged in CloudJiffy?
Resource consumption for each environment is charged to the account owner on an hourly basis. There are 3 types of charges:
- Primary - fees for the main platform resources (i.e. RAM & CPU), provided within cloudlets
- Provider-dependent - the ones that can be either payable or not, according to the chosen hosting provider settings
- Optional extras - charges for usage of some additional platform features
Where Can I see Consumed Resources?
The detailed information on the number of consumed resources can be seen in the different places at my dashboard, for example:
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pricing widget at the environment wizard’s right pane shows the approximate monthly spends, based on the stated amount of reserved cloudlets
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the current resources consumption of every environment is displayed in the Usage column of my environments list. It includes the amount of occupied disc space (in MB) and currently used/overall amount of cloudlets
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the total usage Statistics on all resources types (i.e. RAM, CPU, Storage and Network Bandwidth) can be seen via the appropriate section for the desired node/set of the same-type nodes
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finally, the Billing History section provides any information on all the payable resources, consumed during the stated period, and their costs.
How much do Resources Cost to me?
The prices can be seen inside my CloudJiffy dashboard.
Navigate to Balance > Quotas&Pricing menu item.
Note that the various software stacks are provided free of charge in CloudJiffy. I only pay for the resources consumed but not for the software itself.
How do I Decrease the Consumption?
To decrease my spends I can stop my environment when it is not needed. For example, if it happen to be using my environment as a test or dev one and I don't use it on nights and weekends - I don't have to pay for the resources that I don't use.
In such a way RAM (Memory), CPU and traffic are not going to be charged.
I am going to pay only for disk space that I use (more than 20GB) and for Public IP and SSL if I purchased any.