Billing Instructions
Charging items
Baidu data repository Palo only charges for the resources of hosting Palo cluster, and no additional fees are charged for other cloud supporting functions such as monitoring. Charging items of Palo are as follows:
| Charging items | Instructions |
|---|---|
| Cluster nodes | - provided in the form of node specifications, including CPU, memory and disk storage. - Supporting advance payment and post-payment. |
The rest of public cloud products by means of matched use and in need of additional payment in posse include but are not limited to:
| Products | Instructions |
|---|---|
| EIP | Elastic public IP. When accessing Palo cluster from public network, the user needs to purchase EIP and bind it. |
| BOS | Baidu object storage, it will be charged according to the flow and storage space |
Refer to Here for **details of privatization deployment charges.
Charging mode
Palo supports advance payment (yearly or monthly charging) and post-payment (charging by quantity). The detailed charging rules are as follows:
| Charging methods | Instructions | Points for attention |
|---|---|---|
| Advance payment - yearly or monthly charging | - i. e. yearly or monthly charging, making required payment when creating the instance. - Suitable for the long-term demand of business stability with lower cost than post-payment, and the longer the purchase time is, the more the discount will be. |
- The advance payment instance does not support unsubscribing, if you need to release, please submit the work order for processing. |
| Post-payment－charging by quantity | - Charging by minute, deducting the charge and generate the bill in Beijing time hourly according to the instance. - The billing time is within 1 hour after the end of the current pricing cycle. - Suitable for the scenario where the business has great changes in an instant, and the resources will be released immediately after use to reduce the cost. |
- Post-payment instances can be released at any time. - Before purchase, it is necessary to ensure that there is no arrears in the account, and the total amount of account balance and available vouchers is greater than or equal to 100 yuan. |
Payment methods
Make choice between the following payment methods when purchasing Palo:
- Baidu Intelligent Cloud account balance, refer to Management console - Financial overview for current balance.
- Online payment.
- Voucher payment, please make sure that the voucher status is in use and the order type is general. Log on to Management console - Financial center - Voucher for list of currently owned vouchers.
Charging changes
Baidu Intelligent Cloud Palo supports charging mode switching service to meet the needs of users, and the two charging methods of on-demand charging (post-payment) and monthly or yearly charging (advance payment) can be flexibly switched.
Changing advance payment to post payment
Description of charging changes
- Advance payment orders need to be switched 24 hours before the due date, and the changed charging method will take effect after the expiration of the current order, while the due time is subject to the financial order.
- Charging changes are not allowed within 24 hours prior to due time.
- When the advance payment is switched to post-payment, the charging method will take effect after the service expires.
- This function only supports users who have not opened automatic renewal.
Note: when advance payment is changed to post-payment, the account balance must be greater than 100 yuan, if it is insufficient, the order will fail and void, and the way of charging switch will also fail.
Operation steps
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Log on to the console, select "Product Services - > Data Repository Palo" to enter the cluster management page, select Palo cluster requiring to change the charging method, and select the item charging change in "More operations".
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Enter the "Charging change" page to confirm the node and financial information after the advance payment is changed to post-payment. If there is no problem, click the button "Next step".
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Confirm the order information, if there is no problem, click the button "Pay".
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When the payment is completed, the change of advance payment to post- payment is completed.
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For cluster instances that have completed charging changes, a sign will remind users which clusters have set charging change.
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Before the charging change takes effect, the user can cancel the previous charging change at any time. Check the cluster column and select the item "Cancel pricing change" in "More operations".
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If you cancel the charging change, a confirmation box will pop up, click the button "Confirm" to cancel the change.
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After confirming the cancellation of the change, the charging change can be made when necessary, but note that the charging change should be operated 24 hours before the cluster expires, and the cluster that expires within 24 hours does not allow the charging change.
Changing post-payment to advance payment
Description of charging changes
- Changing post-payment to advance payment can be made at any time;
- Advance payment will take effect immediately after changing.
Operation steps
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Log on to the console, select "Product Services - > Data Repository Palo" to enter the cluster management page, select Palo cluster requiring to change the charging method to post-payment, and select the item charging change in "More operations".
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On the charging change page, select advance payment duration, confirm and click the button "Next step".
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The advance payment process of charging change is consistent with the process of normal cluster purchase, click the button "pay" to make payment and click the button "Confirm payment".
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After the payment, the charging change is completed.
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Go back to the cluster management list, the previous post-payment cluster has been changed to advance payment cluster can be seen. Since the change from post-payment to advance payment takes effect immediately, the cluster has no special prompt.