General
What is a cloud service?
Cloud services are a broad family, but most often they share some key specifics:
- You pay-as-you-go – cloud services are billed based on usage.
- You can seamlessly scale, expanding your usage based on your current demand.
- It provides a ready to use solution. You don’t need to invest in building something, that is already built and supported for you.
Are a storage service like Dropbox/Google Drive/...?
No. We focus more on providing infrastructre like Linux servers for example for web hosting or running your own cloud storage service using ownCloud for example.
Billing
How are cloud services billed?
All cloud services provided by CloudBalkan are billed based on the usage and time (in seconds).
Any changes in the usage are calculated exactly for the duration they were active.
Are there additional costs like per IOPS, DNS requests or bandwidth?
No. Our policy is to have clear, simple and transparent billing.
All costs are provided in “per hour” and “per month” pricings and are calculated down to the seconds of resource usge.
Cloud Servers
Do you provide public IPv4 addresses?
Yes, all Cloud Servers are assigned one public IPv4 address.
What happens to the data if i stop my server?
You can turn on and off your server as many as you want. Your data is stored on the persistent storage for the entire lifetime of your server.
Cloud Workstations
How can i connect to my Cloud Workstation?
Using Remote Desktop Protocol and a Remote Desktop Client from any machine with internet connection.
Cloud Storage
How many drives can i add to a Cloud Server or Cloud Workstation?
You can add up to 64 drives per machine.
Can i attach one drive to multiple Cloud Servers?
No. Storage cannot be shared between servers due to the specifics of the type of block storage.
Cloud DNS
Is there a limit on the number of sub-domain record per domain?
No. There is no additional cost neither.