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Server Load Balancer:Overdue payments

Last Updated:Sep 11, 2024

This topic describes the causes of overdue payments, suspension policies, and how to view the amount due of Application Load Balancer (ALB) resources.

Causes

  • You have not purchased resource plans and your account balance is insufficient.

  • Your resource plans cannot cover the fees incurred in your service.

Overdue payments

Payment status

Suspension policy

Solution

Near due

The system checks whether your account balance is sufficient to pay for the next three billing cycles based on the average payable amount during the last 7 hours. If you do not have a sufficient balance in your Alibaba Cloud account, the system notifies you by text messages or emails.

Warning

You are notified if your service is about to be suspended due to an overdue payment. To ensure service continuity, renew your service at the earliest opportunity.

After you top up the account balance, your service is resumed.

Overdue

If your Alibaba Cloud account has an overdue payment, all pay-as-you-go instances within your account are affected.

  • After a payment becomes overdue, the instances remain running for one day.

  • The instances are stopped one day after a payment becomes overdue.

  • If you have an overdue payment, you cannot release your instances.

  • After your ALB instance is stopped, if you top up your account and complete the overdue payment within 15 days, the ALB service is automatically enabled and you can continue to use the ALB instance.

Fifteen days after an ALB instance is stopped due to an overdue payment, the ALB instance is released. The configurations and data of the instance are deleted and cannot be restored.

You cannot restore the instances.

View amount due

  1. Log on to the Expenses and Costs console.

  2. On the Account Overview page, view overdue payments.