Will I Be Billed If My Domain Name Is Under Attack?

Yes. The consumed traffic or bandwidth will be billed.

If a domain name is under attack and the attacks affect other CDN users or pose risks to CDN, CDN will ban the domain name, change its status to Disabled, and disable the acceleration service for it. The domain name cannot be accessed but its configuration is retained. When the attack stops, contact customer service to unban the domain name.

• Solutions

  Solution	Description
  Access control	You can use access control functions such as referer validation, IP address access control lists (ACLs), and token authentication for domain names to avoid unnecessary traffic or bandwidth consumption. For details, see Access Control.

  

  To ensure data integrity and accuracy of bills, a bill is usually generated after a billing cycle ends. Therefore, the bill time is later than the time when resources are consumed, and resource consumption cannot be reflected in real time through bills. This is due to the distributed architecture of CDN points of presence (PoPs).