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Billing is based on usage for load balancers. You can't offer fixed monthly fee as users may consume all of your network or system capacity and pay as if they were using nothing. This is not a sustainable business.

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I'm only really after a ballpark figure, multiply everything by 744 and say it's estimated. Put a price per gigabyte overage underneath

DO's offering is a fixed monthly rate.

They're $0.03 per hour [0].

[0] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/

It also says right on that page "$20 per month"

Sorry I meant it's not billed by network usage, unlike the parent was saying is necessary.

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