Overview: Costs > Usage Section of the Cloud Panel

For VPS, Cloud Server, and Dedicated Server

This article explains what information is listed in the Costs > Usage section of the Cloud Panel.

In the Usage section, the usage time of the server, shared storages, load balancers, images, and public IP addresses you set up is listed in a table.

Displaying Your Usage

  • Log in to your IONOS account.
  • Click Menu > Server & Cloud in the title bar. Select the Server & Cloud contract you want.

  • In the navigation bar on the left, click Costs > Usage.

Notes
  • The cost overview does not take into account discounts and special promotions. The displayed time is given as coordinated universal time (UTC).

  • On the Invoice Overview page in the My Account > Invoices & Payment Details section of your IONOS account, you can download your individual invoices from the last 2 years in PDF format in the Individual Invoices tab. For more information on retrieving invoices, see the following article: Downloading invoices at IONOS

  • Invoices from IONOS are always automatically sent to the email address you have specified in your contact details. If you set an additional email address for receiving invoices in your account details, a copy of your invoices and payment-related information will automatically be sent to this second email address. This gives you the option of having your invoices and payment-related information sent to two different email addresses at the same time.

  • If you want to receive your invoices as an email attachment, we need your consent. How you can do this is described in the following article: Downloading invoices at IONOS

  • Information about the structure of your IONOS invoice can be found in the following article: Structure of the IONOS Invoices

Structure of the Usage Section

This table lists the most important information regarding your usage:

Period: In the Period section, you can set the desired period for which you want to check your usage.

Group:

  • Servers: Displays the server that you used during the time period.

  • Images: Displays the images that you have created.

  • Load Balancers: Displays the load balancers that you used during the time period.

  • IP: Displays the public IP addresses that you used during the time period.

  • Block Storage: Displays the block storages that you used during the time period.

  • Public Network: Displays the public IP addresses that you used during the time period.

  • Network Resources: Displays the network resources (such as VPN) that you used during the time period.

  • Shared Storage: Displays the shared storages that you have used during the time period.

  • Backup Accounts: Displays the backup accounts or backup package.

Service: Shows the booked services.

Avg. Amount: Shows the average amount of purchased services.

From: Time from when the respective service was used.

To: Time from when the respective service was no longer used.

Usage: Exact usage time per minute

The second level details the services used and the exact duration of use.

The third level lists the exact useful life of the services used. Furthermore, all adjustments to the services used are logged.