How does billing work for Extended Lifecycle Support for CloudLinux OS 6 (CL OS 6 ELS)?

Issue

Customers want to know how billing works for Extended Lifecycle Support for CloudLinux OS 6 (CL OS 6 ELS)

Environment

• CloudLinux Legacy
• CloudLinux Solo
• CloudLinux Shared Pro
• CloudLinux OS 6

Solution

The system automatically detects the CloudLinux OS version installed on every registered server. The charge for CL OS 6 ELS is added for every server with the 6th version to the renewal invoice.

The price of CL OS 6 ELS is 30% on top of the CloudLinux OS Shared price per month.

Customers who use key-based licensing accounts need to register a server using the CloudLinux OS activation key while the system will add the charge for CL OS 6 ELS for every identified server with the 6th OS version. 

Customers using IP-based licensing accounts must enable the Allow to use CL6 repositories option for each IP-based license.

Once done, the system will automatically detect the CloudLinux OS version for every registered server. The extra charges will be added for servers with the detected 6th version. 

By default, all servers running the 6th version of the CloudLinux OS on Dec 1st, 2020 will have the Allow to use CL6 repositories option enabled on each IP-based license. 

Note that CL OS 6 ELS is included in CloudLinux OS Shared Pro, meaning that no extra charges will be added if the server is registered using this product. 

Useful links

• How to add a server account?
• https://docs.cloudlinux.com/cln/billing/#cloudlinux-os-6-extended-lifecycle-support