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Help Center/ Elastic Volume Service/ Service Overview/ Billing/ Impacts and Usage Suggestions on Yearly/Monthly Disks Before and After Expiration

Impacts and Usage Suggestions on Yearly/Monthly Disks Before and After Expiration

Updated on 2024-06-18 GMT+08:00

Introduction to Retention Period of Yearly/Monthly Resources

Yearly/Monthly is a prepaid billing mode, of which resource charges are paid in advance. You can choose yearly/monthly billing when purchasing disks.

Before a yearly/monthly disk expires, if you do not renew the disk or auto renewal is enabled but fails, the disk will enter the retention period after expiration.

  • During the retention period, if you renew the disk, the disk will be unfrozen.
  • During the retention period, if you do not renew the disk, the disk will be released after the retention period ends.
Figure 1 Impacts on yearly/monthly resources before and after expiration

Impact on Services When Resources Are Frozen, Unfrozen, or Released

  • Frozen resources: Resource access and usage are restricted, which will interrupt your services. For example, if a server is frozen, it will be automatically powered off or shut down. If a disk is frozen, disk I/Os will be restricted.
  • Unfrozen resources: Resource restrictions are removed, but you need to check and restore your services. For example, after a server is unfrozen, you need to power it on.
  • Released resources: Resources are released. Data stored on the resources will be deleted and cannot be retrieved.

Usage Suggestions on Yearly/Monthly Resources

If you no longer need to use a yearly/monthly disk after it expires, you can log in to the management console, detach the disk, and release the resource. For details, see section "Releasing Resources" in the Billing Center User Guide.

Table 1 lists the common usage scenarios and suggestions on yearly/monthly disks. You can refer to usage suggestions to enable auto renewal and set a renewal date, and pay attention to resource expiration and freezing notifications to keep up with the latest resource information, ensuring that your services and data are not affected.
Table 1 Common usage scenarios and suggestions

Common Usage Scenario

Suggestions

Resources are billed in yearly/monthly mode.

  • Manually renew the resources.

    For details, see Manually Renewing a Resource.

  • Enable auto renewal and keep sufficient balance in your account.

    For details, see Enabling Auto-Renewal.

  • Pay attention to notifications about auto renewal failures and top up your account in time.
  • Pay attention to notifications about to-be-expired resources and renew the resources in time.
  • Pay attention to notifications about to-be-frozen resources and renew the resources in time.
  • Pay attention to notifications about to-be-released resources and renew the resources in time.

The server is billed in yearly/monthly mode, and the attached disks are also billed in yearly/monthly mode.

The server expiration date is inconsistent with the disk expiration date.

  • Set a renewal date. Renew the server and disks in a batch before the expiration date, and set the renewal date for these resources to a same date.

    For details, see Setting a Renewal Date.

    For details, see Manually Renewing a Resource.

    NOTE:

    You can only set the renewal date to a day (from the 1st day to the 28th day of a month, or the last day of a month) but not to a month.

    If you want to set the renewal date to a whole month, you need to set a unified expiration month when setting the renewal duration.

  • Refer to suggestions for the scenario where resources are billed in yearly/monthly mode.

The server is billed in yearly/monthly mode, but the attached disks are billed in pay-per-use mode.

  • Change the disk billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.

    For details, see From Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly.

  • Refer to suggestions for the scenario where resources are billed in yearly/monthly mode.
  • If the disk billing mode is not changed, refer to suggestions for the scenario where resources are billed in pay-per-use mode.

The server is billed in pay-per-use mode, but the attached disks are billed in yearly/monthly mode.

  • Change the server billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.

    For details, see From Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly.

  • Refer to suggestions for the scenario where resources are billed in yearly/monthly mode.
  • If the server billing mode is not changed, refer to suggestions for the scenario where resources are billed in pay-per-use mode.

Resources are billed in pay-per-use mode.

  • Top up your account in time to keep sufficient account balance.
  • Pay attention to notifications about insufficient balance alert and top up your account in time.
  • Pay attention to notifications about account arrears and top up your account in time.

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