How Billing Works
The Vortex Cloud price plan is based on a pure utility (pay-as-you-go) pricing model. We will not
charge any set-up fees or other fixed fees. It allows you to grow and shrink your Cloud server
requirements without any limitations. You will have the ability to stop and start your Cloud Servers
via your own Control Panel or API and you will not be charged for any unused periods of time.
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Vortex will charge you for five key components
For the price listed below, you can get your own unmanaged Cloud Server.
| Memory |
1 CPU |
2 CPUs |
3 CPUs |
4 CPUs |
| 0.5 Gb |
£0.025 |
£0.040 |
£0.050 |
£0.055 |
| 1.0 Gb |
£0.050 |
£0.070 |
£0.090 |
£0.100 |
| 1.5 Gb |
£0.075 |
£0.095 |
£0.125 |
£0.140 |
| 2.0 Gb |
£0.100 |
£0.100 |
£0.140 |
£0.170 |
| 3.0 Gb |
£0.150 |
£0.150 |
£0.195 |
£0.240 |
| 4.0 Gb |
£0.200 |
£0.200 |
£0.200 |
£0.260 |
| 5.0 Gb |
£0.250 |
£0.250 |
£0.250 |
£0.305 |
| 6.0 Gb |
£0.300 |
£0.300 |
£0.300 |
£0.345 |
| 7.0 Gb |
£0.350 |
£0.350 |
£0.350 |
£0.380 |
| 8.0 Gb |
£0.400 |
£0.400 |
£0.400 |
£0.400 |
Notes:
To the Operating System, these virtual CPUs appear like physical CPUs and therefore may impact your OS and/or software licensing.
Customers automatically become eligible for more CPUs the more memory they buy (see light blue area)
Customers have the option to buy additional CPUs at incremental cost (see darker blue area).
| Windows Server 2003 Edition |
Max. RAM |
Max. CPUs |
Charge |
| Windows Standard Server 2003 R2 (32-bit) |
4Gb |
4 |
£0.03 / hour |
| Windows Standard Server 2003 R2 (64-bit) |
32Gb |
4 |
£0.03 / hour |
Notes:
These costs are per Cloud Server per hour
The RAM/CPU limitations are dictated purely by Microsoft.
The above costs are subject to Microsoft Service Provider Licensing Agreement (SPLA) conditions which may vary or change over time.
| Storage Volume |
Cost per GB |
| Less than 1TB |
£0.30 per month |
| > 1TB - 10TB |
£0.28 per month |
| > 10TB |
£0.26 per month |
Notes:
As our storage model is persistent, storage costs will be incurred even when a Virtual Dedicated Server is stopped.
We only charge you for what you really use – e.g. if we provision a virtual disk of 20Gb but you only store 4Gb of data inside this disk, you will be charged only for the 4Gb.
| Type |
Cost per GB |
| Uploads |
£0.07 |
| Downloads < 1TB per month |
£0.10 |
| Downloads > 1TB – 5TB per month |
£0.09 |
| Downloads > 5TB per month |
£0.08 |
Notes:
Data transfers between Virtual Dedicated Servers and our storage back-end are free of charge in both directions.
Uploading is transferring data into your server, downloading is retrieving data from your server.
| Service |
Cost per Hour |
| Firewalling |
£0.01 / hour per IP address |
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