Do VDS come with pay-per-use?

Question

Network administration

Are there any cloud servers with billing based on the fact of use? Those. so that I only pay for the time that the server was online? It was very convenient for any test purposes. Hosting location is desirable in Russia.

Answer 1

99% of the so-called "clouds" keep the bribe even when the server is turned off, this also applies to all the options already mentioned above. Someone takes less during downtime, someone more, depending on what resources they supposedly reserve for the client. To prevent money from dripping at all, the server has to be deleted, making it a snapshot / backup, if the provider allows it, of course. Some snapshots are free. To simplify these tasks, the provider's API can help, cloud providers usually have it.
If you are for development, you can look at the so-called Web IDEs, like Cloud9 and others like them. If the minimum resources are enough, you can, as an option, look at the Jelastic cloud from MirHosting, where 2 instances and a disk are free. Or just take an inexpensive and full-fledged VPS for $10-20 per year, for example, from ArubaCloud and don't fool yourself. Of course, the options I mentioned are not in Russia, but in Europe, which in terms of accessibility is almost the same, unless of course you are from the Far East or similar places.

Answer 2

Vultr, DO
Create a virtual machine (you can use the API for this), use it, the bill goes by the hours of its operation, then you stop and drop.

Answer 3

Yes, only in physical ones there is still an installation fee

Answer 4

There are, but in 99% of cases you will have to partially pay for downtime. As a rule, this is an IP reservation and a disk.

Answer 5

Yes, in my opinion, all cloud companies pay for hours
Created a server
Worked
Deleted the server