One way you could approach the question would be the way hosting companies do it with dedicated servers.
Here's one scenario: You charge a certain "base fee" (say, $100 US/mo) that includes x gigabytes of storage, y gigabyte of memory and up to z MHz of CPU on a 95th percentile basis. Excessive use of CPU brings additional charges. You have different "packages" with differing amounts of CPU allotment, virtual SMP, memory, disk space, etc. You would also charge a one time "setup fee" of (say) $50 for each virtual server you set up, "setup fees" to reconfigure a VM (add storage or memory), etc. I'll leave the actual costs up to you, but you get the idea. Cesare' A. Ramos wrote: > Hellos to all. > > Wanted to see if anybody out there is charging depts. or business > units for hosted servers in a virtual environment? We have a few > depts. and are entertaining billing back on vm server use. > > Thoughts / formulas / input.. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
