How do I sell a VPS by the hour?
Oct 22, 2026
- Open Settings > Products & Pricing and edit your VPS or dedicated server product.
- On the Pricing tab, find Hourly billing and tick Sell by the hour.
- Type the Hourly rate (for example
0.0089), or leave it empty to use the monthly price divided by 730 hours. - Set the Monthly cap: the most one server can cost in a month. Empty means the monthly price,
0means no cap. - Choose whether a stopped server is still billed (on by default) and, if you want one, a Minimum deposit.
- Save. Customers now see Pay hourly next to the normal billing cycles.
Clients are invoiced once a month, after the month ends, for the hours the server ran. The first invoice appears on the first day of the next month, after the job runs at 01:00. Make sure the cron job is set up, because the hours are metered by a job that runs every hour.
More detail is in Hourly billing.