[corobo]

> Pay as you use. Hourly rate, monthly billing.

Nah. I pay monthly, include monthly pricing. I can probably set up an nginx/varnish instance faster than I can calculate the monthly cost when you're billing by the hour.

[falcolas]

You aren't the audience, then. These offerings are for people who don't want to manage an nginx/varnish stack.

One thing that is nice is the automatic failover (of the routing stack) when a VM or datacenter goes down.

[corobo]

I'm not personally no, the company I work for is - that's why I looked.

Essentially what I'm after is Digitalocean's load balancing per-domain rather than per-infrastructure

If it was my own stuff I'd just do it myself, work can afford the premium if it includes a support team when things break

[meister]

Billing is based on usage for load balancers. You can't offer fixed monthly fee as users may consume all of your network or system capacity and pay as if they were using nothing. This is not a sustainable business.

[corobo]

I'm only really after a ballpark figure, multiply everything by 744 and say it's estimated. Put a price per gigabyte overage underneath

[AYBABTME]

DO's offering is a fixed monthly rate.

[misframer]

They're $0.03 per hour [0].

[0] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/

[AYBABTME]

Sorry I meant it's not billed by network usage, unlike the parent was saying is necessary.

[squeaky-clean]

It also says right on that page "$20 per month"