What is Charged in CirrusGrid? #
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
Detailed information on each of these types of charges can be found in the Charged Resources document.
Where the Consumed Resources Can be Seen? #
The detailed information on the amount of consumed resources can be seen in the different places at your dashboard, for example:
- pricing widget at the environment wizard’s right pane shows the approximate monthly spends, based on the stated amount of reserved cloudlets
- the current resources consumption of every environment is displayed in the Usage column of your environments list. It includes the amount of occupied disc space (in MB) and currently used/overall amount of cloudlets
- 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
- finally, the Billing History section provides any information on all the payable resources, consumed during the stated period, and their costs.
The details on each of these options can be seen in the Monitor Consumed Resources document.
How Much do Resources Cost? #
With CirrusGrid you only pay for consumed resources. The prices can be seen inside your CirrusGrid dashboard.
Navigate to Balance > Quotas & Pricing menu item. Here you’ll see a set of tabs displaying pricing information for each kind of resource available in CirrusGrid.
Choose the one you are interested in to see the pricing and discount scale. You can find more information about pricing and discount systems in the Pricing System and Automatic Discounts documents.
Note that the various software stacks are provided free of charge in CirrusGrid. You only pay for the resources consumed but not for the software itself.
How to Decrease the Consumption? #
To decrease your spends you can stop your environment when it is not needed. For example, if you happen to be using your environment as a test or dev one and you don’t use it on nights and weekends – you don’t have to pay for the resources that you don’t use.
In such a way RAM (Memory), CPU and traffic are not going to be charged.
You are going to pay only for disk space that you use and for public IP and SSL if you purchased any.
Follow the links to get acquainted with useful tips on consuming CirrusGrid resources in a smart way:
