Billing of IPA - Dynamic Content Delivery Network - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

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)

Scenario	Billing 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.

Scenario

Billing 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?