Introduction 


Welcome to Genesis Cloud! This guide covers how to properly get started with our service and provides an overview of our knowledgebase to help you find what you are looking for as quickly as possible. You can always jump back to this article for orientation.

Table of Contents

  1. Setting Up Your Account

  2. Requesting Quota and Creating Instances

  3. Volumes, Snapshots, Floating IPs and More

  4. Organizations and Projects

  5. Billing

Setting Up Your Account


In order to use our service you will need to create your own Genesis Cloud account. Make sure to verify your account upon creation using your phone number. In order to create instances, we require a valid payment method. After these steps you are ready for the next steps.

Requesting Quota and Creating Instances


To ensure that we always have the capacity to host your desired instances, we require you to request quotas for the resources you want to use. In most cases, we will promptly send you a confirmation, enabling you to create instances. Instances will be billed on demand, depending on our current pricing.

Volumes, Snapshots, Floating IPs and More


We offer a variety of features to use with our service, including Volumes to store your data, Snapshots to facilitate starting up and working with instance configurations and Floating IPs to provide easy access to your instances at all times. Leverage these features to your advantage. 

Organizations and Projects


If your account is associated to an organization, or if you would potentially benefit from using our organizational features, take a look at the functionalities for organizations.

Billing


We charge for 'Active Instances', 'Stopped Instances (Boot Volume Storage)', 'Block Storage', 'Object Storage', 'File Storage', 'Snapshots', and 'Floating IPs'. 


When instances are Active, you will be charged for GPU usage. When instances are stopped, you will not be charged for GPU usage; however, boot volume storage charges will still apply. These storage charges depend on the size of the system disk and are calculated based on SSD Volume pricing. You can view the current SSD Volume rates in the 'Volume' section of the console dashboard. Click on the 'Create New Volume' button, then select 'SSD Block Storage', and you will see the latest pricing per GiB per month.


For more information you can check our pricing and our billing alarm feature.