VDS Server Payment Model and Prices
Balance
To pay for a VDS server, a unified balance or a cloud platform balance is used, depending on the account balance type.
You can pay for a VDS server using different types of funds: basic funds or bonuses.
Before paying, top up your balance.
Payment Model
VDS servers use a pay-as-you-go model. Funds are deducted from your balance every hour for the previous hour of server configuration usage.
Unlike cloud servers, where each resource (vCPU, RAM, disk) is billed separately, a VDS server is billed at a single price for the configuration.
Payment for VDS servers is generated by project.
If the server configuration is changed, payment for the new VDS server configuration will begin immediately, and payment for the old configuration will cease after one hour.
For example, if a VDS server configuration is changed at 13:25 from 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, and 40 GB local disk to 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, and 80 GB local disk. During the 13:00–14:00 hour, funds will be deducted for both the configuration with 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, and 40 GB local disk and the 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, and 80 GB local disk configuration. After 14:00, funds will only be deducted for the new 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, and 80 GB local disk configuration.
Payment for a VDS server continues to be charged when the server is turned off, as resources are reserved for it.
Blocking resources if there are insufficient funds on the balance
If there are insufficient funds on the balance at the time of deduction, the VDS server will be automatically blocked — while continuing to incur charges.
To restore access to resources, you must top up your balance by the debt amount within 14 days after blocking.
If you do not top up your balance by the debt amount within the allotted time after blocking, the VDS server will be deleted. Data from the local disk will also be deleted. Projects are not deleted in this process.
To avoid missing balance top-ups, you can configure balance status notifications.
External traffic
External traffic is inbound and outbound traffic between the public address of a VDS server and a public address on the internet. All other traffic is considered internal.
All projects within a single cloud platform account are provided with 3 TB of free external traffic each month. When the free 3 TB of external traffic is exhausted, traffic will be billed as a cloud platform resource. This means that funds will be deducted from your balance every hour for the traffic consumed in the previous hour. The cost of traffic will be added to the total cost of the VDS server within the project.
By default, Basic Selectel DDoS protection is enabled for a VDS server. Malicious filtered DDoS traffic is not counted in consumption and is not billed.
Internal traffic
Internal traffic is inbound and outbound traffic between the public address of a VDS server and the public address of another Selectel service, such as a dedicated server.
Traffic between projects and locations of the Selectel cloud platform is also considered internal.
Traffic (inbound and outbound) to any other Selectel services is not charged from the cloud platform side.
View consumption
You can view the current cost of the entire cloud infrastructure, as well as consumption and billing for the infrastructure and external traffic, in the Control panel: in the top menu, click Products → Cloud Servers → Platform consumption** section**.
Current cost
Current cost is the amount of money that the current cloud infrastructure configuration consumes over a specific period of time.
Current cost can be viewed in the Control panel: in the top menu, click Products → Cloud Servers → Platform consumption** section** → Current cost** tab**.
You can view the current cost of specific projects, resources, and pools by hour, day, or month.
Infrastructure cost data is updated every hour. In the Control panel, it is displayed 5–35 minutes after the actual changes to the infrastructure and its cost. Recently deleted resources may continue to be displayed in the Control panel until the next data update. However, resource billing stops from the hour following their deletion.
Consumption and billing charts
Infrastructure consumption and billing charts can be viewed in the Control panel: in the top menu, click Products → Cloud Servers → Platform consumption** section** → Expense chart** tab** → Consumed and Paid tabs.
You can view the consumption of specific projects, objects, resources, regions, and pools. Consumption and billing charts can be viewed for a specific time period or sorted by days, weeks, months, or years.
To export consumption and billing details in .csv format, click Download CSV and select how the rows in the export should be grouped (by hour, day, week, month, or year).
All resource locks are shown on the consumption and billing charts.
Traffic
External traffic consumption for the current month can be viewed in the Control panel: in the top menu, click Products → Cloud Servers → Platform consumption** section** → External traffic** tab**.
To export hourly external and internal traffic consumption details for all public account addresses in .csv format, select the period and click Download CSV. You can only export details for the last three months.
Prices
Prices for VDS server configurations and external traffic can be viewed at selectel.ru.
Accounting documents
After payment, you can obtain accounting documents.