Setting up metered (Resource-based) billing for CloudStack
HostBill (Deactivated)Last updated Apr 19, 2018 by HostBill
Setting up metered (Resource-based) billing for CloudStack
For metered (hourly) billing to work your Cloudstack needs to have usage server running – learn more
- In HostBill go to Settings → Products & Services, and select your Cloudstack orderpage
- Select product you wish to setup metered billing for
- From Pricing option select Metered
- Setup
variables you wish to bill your customer for, according to its usage.
Following variables are available to be measured/billed:
- Running VM – total running time of a VM per usage record period. Enter cost of having 1VM working for 1H.
- Allocated VM – total allocated time of a VM per usage record period. Enter cost of having 1VM allocated for 1H.
- Public IP address – public IP address. Enter cost of having 1public IP for 1hour.
- Traffic – total number of GB received+sent. Enter cost of 1GB traffic.
- Volume – total disk volume used per hour. Enter cost of 1GB used per 1Hour.
- Template – total templates size used per hour. Enter cost of 1GB used per 1Hour.
- Snapshot – total snapshot size used per hour. Enter cost of 1GB used per 1Hour.
- Additionally, you can setup billing method per each variable, and pricing slabs/tiers:
- Tiered scheme
Every unit charge is calculated with each measurement based on its own tier.i.e.: 1-2: $1, 3-4: $2, qtys are: 1,3; charge: 1*$1 + 3*$2 - Overage tiers
Use this scheme as tiered, where each expected measurement is low (i.e. hourly bandwidth).i.e.: 0-100: $0, 101-150: $1 :up to 100 – free, everything above 100 – $1/unit. So total of: 102 measured will cost $2 - Volume scheme
All units charge is calculated based on total count in period and related bracket.ie.: 1-2: $1, 3-4: $2, qtys are: 1,3; charge: 4*$2 - Stairstep scheme
Total cost is calculated based on price bracket, charge is for entire bracket not certain unitsi.e.: 1-5: $1, 6-10: $2, total qty: 7, charge: $2
- Tiered scheme
- By filling Fixed recurring fee you can setup flat fee that will be added to customer charge, no matter of actual usage
