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.
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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.
Association between CDN and Cloud Eye
You can view basic data (such as traffic, bandwidth, and status codes) of domain names under your account in real time and set alarms. When the monitoring metrics trigger the alarm conditions, alarms are sent by email or SMS, helping you detect potential risks in a timely manner. For details, see Cloud Eye Monitoring.
Usage cap
When the usage cap is enabled, CDN will disable the acceleration service for your domain names when the access bandwidth reaches the threshold you specify to avoid excessive fee.
Request rate limiting
If request rate limiting is enabled, when a single request reaches the rate limit condition, the access speed of the user is limited to reduce the risk of burst bandwidth.
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).
Purchase and Billing FAQs
- What Will I Billed For?
- Will I Be Billed If My Domain Name Is Under Attack?
- How Am I Billed If My Traffic Package Is Used Up?
- Do I Have to Consider the Service Area and Origin Location When Buying a Traffic Package?
- Is Traffic for HTTP and HTTPS Requests Deducted from the Same Traffic Package?
- Can I Unsubscribe from a CDN Traffic Package?
- How Long Is the Validity Period of a CDN Traffic Package? Can I Renew the Package?
- Can a CDN Traffic Package Be Associated with a Specific Domain Name?
- Can I View the Billing Information of a Single Domain Name?
- Can CDN and OBS Share a Traffic Package?
- Does CDN Charge for HTTP/HTTPS Requests?
- What Traffic Is Consumed When CDN Requests Resources from OBS?
- How Do I Purchase a CDN Traffic Package?
- How Do I Set an Alert for the Remaining Traffic in a Traffic Package?
- How Do I Check the Bills of 95th Percentile Bandwidth?
- Can an International Traffic Package Be Used for the Chinese Mainland?
- When Does a CDN Traffic Package Take Effect?
- Do I Need to Consider the User Location When Buying a Chinese Mainland Traffic Package?
- Can Multiple Acceleration Domain Names Share the Same Traffic Package?
- Why Is the Traffic Usage in a Traffic Package Different from That Shown in Analytics?
- Why Is My Account Balance Deducted Even If I Have Purchased a Traffic Package?
- If I Purchase Only an International Traffic Package, How Will I Be Billed for Traffic Generated on the Chinese Mainland?
- Is Billing for On-Demand Service Acceleration the Same as That for File Download Acceleration?
- What Is a Retention Period?
- If Global Acceleration Is Configured, Are the Traffic and Bandwidth Consumptions in and Outside the Chinese Mainland Billed Separately?
- Why Is My CDN Not Working When My Account Is in Arrears?
- An OBS Bucket Is Being Used as the Origin Server and an OBS Pull Traffic Package Has Been Purchased. Why Isn't the Origin Pull Traffic Generated by CDN Being Deducted From the OBS Pull Traffic Package?
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