Scale your deployments

Slot instances are launched with the basic instance by default. This instance type is only suitable for testing and development purposes and comes with limited CPU & memory. 3 deployments of the basic tier are free.

To prepare your deployments for production, you can set up billing and upgrade to a paid instance tier.

Paid Instances

Set up billing

To set up slot billing, you need to buy credits and transfer them to a slot team.

If you have existing deployments, a team of the same name as your account will be created for you, and you can transfer credits to it.

slot teams my-team create --email my-email@example.com # if you want to create a new team, email is optional for email alerts
slot teams my-team update --email my-email@example.com # if you want to update an existing team's email
 
slot auth fund # buy credits for your account, this opens the browser
 
slot auth transfer my-team --usd 10 # transfer $10 from your controller to my-team
# or
slot auth transfer my-team --credits 1000 # transfer 1000 credits ($10) from your controller to my-team

Once you create paid slot instances, funds are deducted on a daily basic with a minimum charge of one day. For example, if you create a deployment and delete it after one hour, you will be charged 1/30th of the monthly cost.

Create an instance with a paid tier

Make sure to use the team flag of the team you previously transferred credits to.

slot d create --tier epic --team my-team my-instance torii

Update an existing instance to a paid tier

Note that you can only upgrade tiers; downgrading to a lower tier is not possible.

Make sure that you created this instance with the team flag of the team you previously transferred credits to, or make sure the team it belongs to has credits available.

slot d update --tier epic my-instance torii