About Gigahost
Cost-effective Linux virtual machines, billed by the millisecond.
Rent virtual machines from independent providers. Pay only for what you use, deploy in seconds.
Why Gigahost
Cost-effective
Offerings are hosted by independent providers. Get a virtual machine without the corporate overhead.
Usage-based billing
Billed by the millisecond, for the duration, CPU and traffic you actually use. No invoices, no stored payment cards, no minimum commitment.
Self-service, start to finish
Deploy instances in seconds with the
ghostCLI or web interface. No order forms, no emails and no waiting for someone to provision your machine.An account only you control
Your account is a key you own. You log in with a signature: no email address or password required.
Getting started
Pricing
Pricing is per 30-day month, billed by the millisecond. Pricing updates become effective after 90 days of notice.
- Base price
- Charged per month for as long as the instance exists.
- CPU time
- The monthly price ranges from the base price to the full-CPU price, depending on CPU utilization.
- Traffic
- Charged per TiB, incoming and outgoing.
- Creation fee
- $0.05, once per instance
- SLA credit
- Any downtime is credited at a multiple of the base price, according to the offering's SLA.
For providers
Monetize servers you already operate, in a data center or at home.
Install the agent on a Linux server:
curl -fsSL https://api.gigahost.cloud/install/hypervisor.sh | sudo shThen enroll the server with a one-time token from the Provider page or ghost account get-host-enrollment-token. Enrollment verifies the server and incurs a one-time, non-refundable fee. The host accepts rentals once enabled and its prices are published.