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Mainframes were (and still are) billed by fractional second of CPU usage, total storage, bandwidth between storage and compute, bandwidth off box, total number
by GartzenDeHaes 6y ago
Mainframes were (and still are) billed by fractional second of CPU usage, total storage, bandwidth between storage and compute, bandwidth off box, total number of jobs scheduled, and per-use fees for third party tools such as sort, RPC servers, and such. So times literally have not changed in this regard.
- chubot 6y agoI just tried NearlyFreeSpeech, which uses FreeBSD and jails, and it has resource billing, although a little more coarse grained: https://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/q/ResourceAccountUnit https://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/q/ResourceAccountUnit So basically if your website doesn't get any hits, you don't get charged.