Auto-renewing WAF

Auto-renewal reduces the management cost of manual renewals and prevents protected domain names from being automatically deleted if you forget to manually renew the subscription. The auto-renewal rules are as follows:

• The first auto-renewal date and billing cycle are calculated based on the expiration date of your WAF instance.
• The WAF auto-renewal duration is of your choice For example, if you select a 3-month duration, WAF automatically renews the subscription for 3 months before each expiration.
• Auto-renewal can be enabled before your WAF instance expires. The system will automatically renew your WAF instance at 3:00 a.m. on the seventh day before it expires. If the auto-renewal fails, the system will try again at 3:00 a.m. every day until WAF expires or the renewal is successful.
• You can still perform a manual renewal even when auto-renewal is enabled. After a manual renewal is complete, auto-renewal is still in effect, and the system will start deducting renewal fees from your account 7 days before the new subscription expires.
• By default, the system automatically deducts fees from your account 7 days before your instance expires. You can change the renewal date to another day if needed, for example, 6 days or 5 days before the instance expires.

Enabling Auto-renewal on the WAF Purchase Page

You can enable auto-renewal on the page for purchasing WAF, as shown in Figure 1. For more details, see Purchasing Cloud WAF.

Figure 1 Auto-renew