They don't, they prorate lower than that. Not sure if it's to the hour or minute or second or what. I know because I setup a linode once and decided to go a different route on the software packages partway through, so I decided to just delete and start over. The credit was a couple cents less than the original amount and when I started another an hour or so later after getting sidetracked, that one also cost a couple cents less.

This makes some sense, as it takes more code to prorate to the day than to the second/millisecond/whatever the smallest time your language uses, so why not just prorate down that low.

Why would it take any more code to prorate by the day compared to by the hour? Last time I checked you just divide by a different number.

I guess it's still just one line with some rounding to the nearest hour, but still just a little more. The lazy man would just do it to the smallest unit in the system.

It's already rounded to the full day.

Yes, it is. My point was that if you had a pool of linodes that you were selling to somebody else, *you* could prorate to the hour. Someone could build the equivalent of AWS on top of Linode. Linode is a great platform for all sorts of stuff.

Huh? where?

I could be wrong, but I was fairly certain Linode rounded to the full day.

Hmm, upon further inspection, it might be a faulty assumption. I see some references from Caker about stuff being prorated to the second, perhaps there is a one-day minimum if you create/destroy a linode, and time after that is pro-rated to the second?

You missed my earlier post (top of page 2 of the thread). From experience, I can state that it is NOT to the day.



Again, I did NOT hit any kind of minimum.