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Ordering, Billing, and Payment

/Section 4) Accounts, Billing, & Payments /Ordering, Billing, and Payment

Included with the Service

Your Sabalcore account includes:

  • One user account with 100GB of permanent storage
  • The first 1,000 core-hours are free for trial and evaluation
  • A 1 hour introductory training session with a Sabalcore Engineer
  • Expert Technical Support by phone and email
  • Secure Access Client (ssClient) – command-line interface (SSH terminal) and Remote Desktop
  • Time on login servers is included (no additional charge)
  • Unlimited data transfer in/out of service
  • Unlimited access to all installed open-source and commercial software (licenses not included)
  • Custom installation of software (open-source or commercial) by Sabalcore engineers (sorry, ensemble builds not available)

Pricing Model

Core-hours

The service is charged by the “core-hour”. A core-hour is one hour of time a computer processor
core is used. Core-hours are calculated as the number of cores used by an application multiplied by its run-time to the nearest second.

For example: a customer runs an application that uses 4 cores on each of 6 compute nodes (computer servers) for 72 hours 23 minutes o seconds. The total time for the job is 6 x 4 cores x 72.38 hours = 1737.20 core-hours.

Rate: $0.14/core-hour for standard tier cores

–>The command “mybalance” and “myusge” will show your core-hour usage.

–>The command “upnodes” will show the system tier.

Storage

Storage is charged by the GB-Month which is roughly the average of your disk usage over the course of a month. A snap-shot is taken each hour which is used to determine the usage deviation for the day. At the end of the month, all the GB-day usages are summed to determine your GB-month usage.

Rate: $0.10/GB-Month

Storage charges will be billed along with your core-hours, about every  month. There is no charge if you use less than 100GB-months of storage.

–>The command “mybalance” and “myusage –storage” will show your storage usage.

Billing and Ordering

PAY-BY-THE-HOUR – Usage is totaled and invoiced at the end of every month – the billing cycle.

PREPAY –  Blocks of hours (in any amount) can be purchased in advance at the standard rate or volume discount rate.  Contact your Sabalcore Business Development representative, call 877-492-8027 or email busdev@sabalcore.com for information. Payment can be made through the invoice. Core-hours are deposited to the account after payment is received or when a PO is provided.

Electronic Invoicing

Invoices are delivered electronically. We use a 3rd parting invoicing system Inuit. Please add the following email address to your spam filter so the invoices are not spam filtered:

You will receive invoices from:

Sabalcore Computing Inc <accounts@sabalcore.com>
 
 Please verify this email address in not spam filtered.

Through a link in the Invoice email you will be able to pay for the invoice with several payment methods described below.

Payment Methods

For all new accounts, please email “accounting@sabalcore.com” your accounts payable contact representative  information: Name, Email, billing address, and Phone.

US and International Accounts

We accept the following payment methods for US and international accounts:

  • All major Credit Cards. Payment link: https://www.sabalcore.com/invoice-payment/
  • Bank transfer wire (contact us for bank details)
  • PayPal
  • Apple Pay
How to pay with credit card

US and most International Accounts – Use any of the following methods to pay with a credit card:

  • Pay through the invoice – A link is provided to pay with a Credit Card, PayPal, Apple Pay, or bank transfer through our secure payment system hosted by Intuit.
  • Payment link – https://www.sabalcore.com/invoice-payment/
  • Or print this credit form and FAX to 877-492-8027.
Bank transfers

US and most International Accounts –

  • Bank Transfer (Wire or ACH) – Contact accounting@sabalcore.com for bank details.
  • PayPal Transfer – Send money to accounting@sabalcore.com and include your Invoice number.

Terms

Standard terms: NET 30 for accounts in good standing.

NET 30 to NET 60 is subject to an additional 5% premium which will be charged and appear on a subsequent invoice.

 

 

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