Why only hourly prices?

ollerisk

So I was looking at the pricing pages on https://www.99stack.com/pricing and I keep seeing these hourly prices. Why is there only hourly prices and not monthly prices listed? following the equation in ToS (i.e multiplying with 672) gives numbers like 13.44 or 26.88 which aren't very nice. How come?

Orson_Deforest

I think it's more fair that way, let's assume that you list a monthly price and then wanna convert it to a hourly price. First of all there's 365.25 days in a year, that's 30.4375 days in a month which is 730.5 hours in a month (and also 8766 hours per year). That means you wouldn't get a perfectly rounded integer for the hourly billing cycle if you listed the monthly prices, you would either have to round up or down.

Since the billing cycle is hourly, it makes perfect sense to also list the hourly price as those prices are more straightforward in this case. With that said I do agree that it sucks to do all the math yourself, they should at least provide us with a tool to easily view the monthly prices since those are everything but straightforward.

Josef

Even if most people won't care about a few cent's it's still good to be accurate.

Donald_Alcorn

Well accurately or not, monthly prices (at least approximately) is pretty much a standard. No matter if the billing is hourly or monthly.

The_Moose

This is usually handled differently between various providers, but you could say that the monthly price is a standard. By using a straightforward monthly price you won't get a straightforward hourly price and vice versa. However going from a hourly price to a monthly price means that you get prices like $7.3 or $14.6 assuming that we multiply with 730 with is the average amount of hours in a month.

Now the interesting part here is that some providers are using the monthly prices to give you a discount if you keep your server over the end of the month but for us that's not really a proper approach for a cloud with hourly billing. Hourly billing means hourly billing and shouldn't be more expensive just because you don't keep your server a full month.

While all the billing is now based on hourly prices we're still working on the listed prices which isn't accurate currently, some are multiplied with 672 and some with 730. Prices listed here: https://www.99stack.com/pricing are currently correct however, both hourly and the new monthly approximated prices which will be listed together with the hourly prices everywhere in the future.