Sometimes you need a server for a few hours, not a full month. Maybe you’re running a quick test, building a demo, training a model, or spinning up extra capacity for a short project. With hourly billing on our VPS hosting platform, you only pay for the time your virtual server is running.
How hourly billing works
We take the monthly price and divide by 672 hours (28 days). For example, a VPS that costs $56/month works out to about $0.083/hour. If you deploy it, use it for four hours, and delete it, you pay for four hours.
There’s a monthly cap: if your server runs for more than 28 days in a billing period, you’re charged the monthly price. So hourly billing never costs more than monthly, it just lets you pay less when you use less.
What about deleted servers
When you delete a VPS, we keep it for 72 hours in case you change your mind. During that window, you’re not billed. If you restore it, billing resumes. This gives you a safety net against accidental deletions.
Both Linux and Windows
Hourly billing works for both Linux VPS and Windows VPS hosting. Windows includes the licensing cost in the hourly rate, so you don’t need to worry about separate license charges for short-lived instances.
You can deploy at any of our six data centers and use any of our OS templates. Hourly billing also works with snapshots, so you can snapshot a configured server, delete it to stop billing, and redeploy from the snapshot later.
Prepaid billing
The platform uses prepaid billing: you add funds to your account (via credit card, PayPal, or other methods) and the hourly cost of your running instances is deducted from your balance. When your balance gets low, we charge your card for the next billing period or send an invoice.
Sign up to deploy VPS hosting with hourly billing, or contact us if you have billing questions.