Estimate a low–high monthly hosting bill from the number of servers or sites, an illustrative per-server price band and your fixed monthly extras such as backups, data transfer, IP addresses, a load balancer and a support plan.
Choose the hosting type closest to the quotes or price pages you are looking at, enter how many servers (or sites, for shared hosting) you need and add the monthly items that are not priced per server. The tool calculates: monthly cost = number of servers × monthly price per server + fixed monthly extras, once with the low end of the band and once with the high end.
Worked example (default, illustrative): a small business runs three medium cloud virtual machines (web, application and database) in an Australian region. At an illustrative $80–$350 per server a month, compute is $240–$1,050. Fixed extras of $260 a month cover backups and snapshots ($70), data transfer out ($60), a load balancer ($45), two public IP addresses ($15) and a basic support plan ($70). The estimate is 3 × $80 + $260 = $500 to 3 × $350 + $260 = $1,310 a month, ex GST.
What to put in "fixed extras": anything charged per account or per month rather than per server: backup storage, snapshot storage, outbound data transfer, public IPv4 addresses, load balancers, NAT gateways, DNS, monitoring, a support plan, control-panel licences and a managed-service fee if it is not already inside the server price.
Limits: the bands are illustrative and only show the arithmetic. Real prices depend on the provider, the region (Sydney and Melbourne regions are often priced differently from overseas regions), the instance family, the operating system licence, commitment discounts and the exchange rate if you are billed in US dollars. Add 10% GST for a GST-inclusive figure with the GST, FX and renewal calculator, and read the worked example guide for a line-by-line build.
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