Glossary
Flotera
Section titled “Flotera”Server: a computer with GPUs connected to Flotera. Marketplace interfaces also use the words “host”, “machine”, and “rig”.
Agent: the program installed on your server for monitoring and control through Flotera.
Telemetry: measurements of the hardware state: temperature, load, power draw, and information about memory, disks, and network.
Fleet: all servers in the account.
Managed server / server-day: the billing unit: one server billed for one UTC day because it was in the fleet and sent data that day. Its billed time can be less than 24 h; the server pays only for that time.
Billed time: the 5-minute slots of a UTC day in which Flotera received data from servers, added up across servers. One delivery of readings counts its slot; time without a connection is not billed. One server online all day is 24 h; two servers online half a day each are also 24 h.
Agent permissions: read-only mode for monitoring or full for monitoring
and hardware control.
Readiness check: a check of the hardware, system, and network against the marketplace requirements. It does not replace the marketplace’s own verification.
Pricing rule: the conditions for calculating the price for a GPU class on the selected marketplace.
Suggestions: current proposed price changes on the Strategy page. Review a suggestion before applying it.
Automatic price updates: applying new price suggestions to published listings of free servers. Configure it for the fleet or one server; see pricing rules.
Grace: the grace period of account operation after a daily charge leaves the balance at zero or below; it lasts until the next midnight (UTC).
Freeze: suspension of Flotera commands, automation, and history recording because of the account state. The hardware itself is not powered off.
Balance history: every change to the balance, such as server fees, top-ups, credits, and charge corrections, listed in posting order.
Balance runway: an estimate of the number of days of operation at the current spending rate.
Flotera Credits: a balance separate from the wallet that pays the Flotera subscription before wallet money. Credits come from the referral program, expire on a set date, and cannot be withdrawn or transferred.
Referral link: your personal sign-up link on the Referrals tab. A host who signs up with it becomes your invited host.
States
Section titled “States”Online / offline: the presence or absence of an agent activity signal in the last 5 minutes.
Idle: the server is not offered for rental.
Listed: the listing is available to renters.
Paused listing: Flotera took the listing out of search because the other marketplace rents the server; it returns by itself after that rental unless you choose Don’t bring it back.
Rented: the marketplace reports an active rental.
Marketplace status: whether the marketplace works on the server — Online, Updating, Offline, or No data; shown with a dot in the marketplace tile of the status strip.
Offer status: what renters see of the offer — Visible, Indexing, Hidden, No offer, Rented, or No data.
Maintenance window: a scheduled work period during which listing availability is limited and new rentals are paused.
Marketplaces
Section titled “Marketplaces”Listing: the server’s record on the marketplace with specifications, price, and rental terms.
Offer: an available rental option on the marketplace.
On-demand: a rental at the price set by the owner.
Spot: a rental at competing bids.
Direct rental: renting a server to a specific person by a private link, without a marketplace. See direct rental.
Price floor: the lowest allowed price; the panel also shows it as “floor”.
Price ceiling: the highest allowed price.
Median: the middle of a sorted sample of prices. For an even number of values, the average of the two central values is usually used.
Occupancy: the share of servers rented or the share of rental time over a period; the meaning is defined by the specific metric.
Market depth: the number of offers in the sample.
Reliability: the marketplace’s rating of a server based on its rules and operating history.
MFP: Clore’s internal rating of a server, used when calculating the token lock.
MFP-lock: locking CLORE to reduce the additional fee for payment in currencies other than CLORE.
PoH / Proof of Holding: a Clore mechanism that reduces the base fee based on the number of tokens the owner holds.
Hardware
Section titled “Hardware”TGP: the rated power of the graphics card in watts. Actual power draw depends on load and settings.
Power limit: a set upper bound for GPU power within the range supported by the card. It can affect performance.
Core temperature: the reading of the GPU core sensor.
Memory temperature: the reading of the VRAM sensor, if available. It can differ significantly from the core temperature.
Zero RPM: stopped fans. At a low temperature, this can be the GPU’s normal mode.
PCIe link width: the number of active lanes of the GPU link, for example ×4 or ×16. It affects the bandwidth of data exchange with the host.
Access
Section titled “Access”API token: a secret for authorizing an external integration. In Flotera, it grants only read access to the state of the entire fleet.
MCP: the protocol for connecting AI clients to Flotera tools.