VDS Server Payment Model and Prices
Balance
To pay for a VDS server, depending on the balance type in the account, the unified balance or Cloud Platform balance is used.
You can pay for a VDS server using different fund types: main funds, bonuses.
Before paying, top up the balance.
Payment Model
VDS servers use a pay-as-you-go model. Every hour, the cost for the previous hour of server configuration usage is debited from your balance.
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. For 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 configuration with 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, and 80 GB local disk. After 14:00, funds will only be deducted for the new configuration: 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, and 80 GB local disk.
Charges for a VDS server continue to accrue when the server is turned off, as resources remain 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, top up the balance by the debt amount within 14 days after suspension.
If you do not replenish your balance to cover the debt within the allotted time after blocking, the VDS server will be deleted. Data on the local disk will also be deleted. Projects are not deleted in this case.
To avoid missing balance top-ups, you can configure balance 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.
3 TB of free external traffic is provided each month for all projects within one cloud platform account. Once the free 3 TB of external traffic is used up, traffic will be billed as a cloud platform resource. This means that every hour, the cost of traffic consumed in the previous hour will be deducted from your balance. The cost of traffic will be added to the total cost of the VDS server within the project.
By default, Selectel basic DDoS protection is enabled for a VDS server. Filtered malicious DDoS traffic is not counted towards usage and is not billed.
Internal traffic
Internal traffic is incoming and outgoing 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 all cloud infrastructure, consumption, and payment for 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.
You can view the current cost in the control panel: in the top menu, click Products → Cloud Servers → Platform Consumption → 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
You can view infrastructure consumption and payment charts in the control panel: in the top menu, click Products → Cloud Servers → Platform Consumption → 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 payment details in .csv format, click Download CSV and select how rows will be grouped in the export (by hours, days, weeks, months, years).
All resource suspensions are displayed on consumption charts and payment charts.
Traffic
You can view external traffic consumption for the current month in the control panel: in the top menu, click Products → Cloud Servers → Platform Consumption → External Traffic tab.
To export hourly consumption details for external and internal traffic across all public IP addresses of the account in .csv format, select a 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 on selectel.ru.
Accounting documents
After payment, you can obtain accounting documents.