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Installing HostBill

HostBill installation is fully automated and takes just seconds, more info at Installation

Connecting HostBill with CloudStack

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Creating your first Cloud Hosting package

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Setting up metered (Resource-based) billing for CloudStack

For metered (hourly) billing to work your Cloudstack needs to have usage server running - learn more 

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• 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.

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• Tiered scheme
  Every unit charge is calculated with each measurement based on its own tier.

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  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).

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  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.

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  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 units

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  i.e.: 1-5: $1, 6-10: $2, total qty: 7, charge: $2

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Configuring flavors/VM sizes

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• Provide Memory amount in MB
• CPU Cores count
• CPU Speed in [ MHz]
• Network speed in Mbps

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Setting cloud flavor billing in package

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• Setup fee - This fee will be added to client credit balance to lower with next recurring invoices.
• Fixed recurring fee - You can add flat recurring fee to be added to each invoice.

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Frequently asked questions

• Q: How customers can cancel their services?
• A: In clientarea, cloustack product, proceed to Billing tab, click on "Request Cancelation" - screenshot

• Q: I've enabled metered billing, but nothing shows in account details - metered tab?
• A: Data is fetched by cron once a day, please wait and make sure that cloudstack usage service is working correctly

• Q: How to set-up overage billing for certain variable? Ie. I wish to bill for bandwidth usage over 1000MB
• A: For Traffic variable in Metered pricing settings use Overage pricing scheme. Set up first tier for unit price 0, ending QTY to free traffic amount. For second tier set up your price per overage GB - screenshot

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