File storage fee and pricing model
This instruction describes the payment and pricing model for file storage that is created in the Dashboard after June 13, 2023.
If you created file storage through tech support before June 13, 2023, it must be paid for monthly it's not automatically renewed.
Balance
For payment cloud platform resources depending on the type of balance in the account is used single balance or cloud platform balance.
You can pay for resources in a number of ways types of funds: fixed assets, bonuses.
Before payment top up.
Payment Model
The cloud platform uses a pay-as-you-go payment model. The balance is debited every hour for the previous hour of usage cloud platform resources.
All resources created are paid for, even if they are turned off.
More details about payment in the document Terms of use of individual services: group of services Cloud platform.
Blocking resources if there are insufficient funds in the balance
If there are insufficient funds on the balance sheet at the time of the write-off to pay, all cloud platform resources will be automatically blocked and will continue to be charged.
To regain access to resources, you must top up by the amount of the debt within 14 days after the blocking. The debt for resources that were charged during the blocking period will be automatically repaid. Projects are not blocked — you can delete the entire project or resources via API.
If you do not top up the balance for the amount of the debt within 14 days after the blocking, all resources will be deleted. Projects will not be deleted.
To avoid missing recharges, you can Set up balance notifications.
External traffic
External traffic is the inbound and outbound traffic between the public address of the cloud platform object and the public address on the Internet. The rest of the traffic is internal traffic.
All projects within one cloud platform account are provided with 3 TB of free external traffic each month. After using the free 3 TB of external traffic, the external traffic is charged at the following rate cloud platform payment models.
The default for the cloud platform is enabled Selectel's basic protection against DDoS attacks. Malicious filtered DDoS traffic is not counted in consumption and is not billed.
Internal traffic
Internal traffic is the inbound and outbound traffic between the public address of a Cloud Platform object and the public address of another Selectel service, such as a Dedicated Server or Object Storage.
Traffic between projects and pools in Selectel's cloud platform is also referred to as internal traffic.
There is no charge for traffic (inbound and outbound) to any other Selectel services on the Cloud Platform side.
View Consumption
To see the current cost of the entire cloud infrastructure, consumption and charges for infrastructure and external traffic, you can go to control panel under Cloud platform → Platform consumption.
Present value
Present value is the amount of money that the current cloud infrastructure configuration consumes over a certain time.
The current cost can be viewed at control panel under Cloud platform → Platform consumption → tab Present value.
You can see the current value of certain projects, resources and pools per hour, day or month.
Infrastructure cost data is updated every hour. They are displayed in the Dashboard 5-35 minutes after the actual change in infrastructure and its cost. Recently deleted resources can continue to be displayed in the dashboard until the next data update. In this case, resources are no longer charged from the next hour after deletion.
Consumption and payment schedules
Infrastructure consumption and payment schedules can be viewed at control panel under Cloud platform → Platform consumption → tab Schedule of Expenditures → tabs Consumed and Paid.
You can view consumption of specific projects, objects, resources, regions, and pools. Consumption and payment schedules can be viewed for a certain period of time or sorted by days, weeks, months, years.
To upload consumption and payment details in the format of .csv, press Download CSV and select how the rows will be grouped in the upload (by hours, days, weeks, months, years).
All of them resource locks are displayed on consumption schedules and payment schedules.
Traffic
External traffic consumption for the current month can be viewed in control panel under Cloud platform → Platform consumption → tab External traffic.
To upload the details of external and internal traffic consumption for each hour for all public addresses of the account in the format of .csv, select a period and press Download CSV. You can only upload the detail for the last three months.
Prices
Resource prices can be viewed at selectel.ru. Prices in pools may vary.
Reporting documents
After payment, you can report.