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by meister 3407 days ago
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.
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I'm only really after a ballpark figure, multiply everything by 744 and say it's estimated. Put a price per gigabyte overage underneath
DO's offering is a fixed monthly rate.
They're $0.03 per hour [0].

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

Sorry I meant it's not billed by network usage, unlike the parent was saying is necessary.
It also says right on that page "$20 per month"