Is azure charging by hour or by month on an app service plan?
Does anyone know if Azure charges me only for the hours that the website was used or it charges the full price for a month? For example, if I go with Azure Basic B1 plan and my website was accessed only 2 hours in that month, do I get charged only for that 2 hours or do I pay the full 54$ price? Thanks!
I've purchased B1 plan but I don't know if I will be charged for the full price even if my website was barely used in a month.
You will be charged for the entire month.
Each Azure service has a different price model, Eg. Azure Function has a consumption tier. The App Service plans, including B1 plan charges whether or not someone accesses your site.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/app-service/windows/
Can I suggest that you look at Containerising your site and hosting in Azure Container Apps. Set the replica to scale down to 0 and you'll find that after ~10 minutes of inactivity your app will scale to 0 and you'll stop paying the active vCPU rate and pay the idle usage rate. There's also a generous free tier.
