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    Edge Security Acceleration:Billing of IPA

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    Edge Security Acceleration:Billing of IPA

    Last Updated:Jun 14, 2024

    IP Application Accelerator (IPA) and Dynamic Content Delivery Network (DCDN) are two independent services and are billed separately. Both of them support pay-by-data-transfer and pay-by-peak-bandwidth. After you enable IPA, the pay-by-data-transfer metering method is used by default. You can change the metering method as needed. This topic describes the metering methods of IPA.

    Note
    • You are charged for the traffic that is accelerated by using IPA. You are not charged for HTTP requests.
    • For more information, visit the DCDN pricing page.

    Pay-by-data-transfer (default)

    ScenarioBilling rule
    Websites that experience greatly fluctuating traffic and spikes in bandwidth usage, with daily bandwidth usage below 30%
    • Description: After you enable IPA, you are billed for the monthly outbound traffic on DCDN points of presence (POPs) based on tiered pricing.
    • Billable item: traffic.
    • Billing method: pay-as-you-go.
    • Billing cycle: You are billed on an hourly basis. A bill is generated about 3 to 4 hours after the end of a billing cycle. The time when bills are generated is determined by the system.

    Pay-by-peak-bandwidth

    Important To use the pay-by-peak-bandwidth metering method, make sure that the peak bandwidth value within the previous 30 days exceeds 5 Gbit/s and contact your account manager or contact us by other means.
    ScenarioBilling rule
    Websites whose network traffic is relatively flat and daily bandwidth usage exceeds 30%
    • Description: After you enabled IPA, you are billed based on the daily peak bandwidth. Bandwidth data is collected every 5 minutes, resulting in a total of 288 records per day. The highest bandwidth is used as the billable daily peak bandwidth.
    • Billable item: peak bandwidth.
    • Billing method: pay-as-you-go.
    • Billing cycle: You are charged on a daily basis. The bills of a day are generated and the amount due is deducted after 00:00 on the following day. The time when bills are generated is determined by the system.

    References

    What is IP Application Accelerator?