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by chatmasta
3006 days ago
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For this idea to work I think you need to auto terminate the instances when no players are online. Otherwise you’re asking your users to remember to terminate the server when they’re done playing, lest they be surprised with a $180 bill at the end of the month. |
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Yes, auto termination is a good idea and on the todo list.
The way payments work is users add funds to their account with a credit card and then run servers. Their account is only debited when the server stops.
So if I add $5 to my account and run a Minecraft server for 2 hours, my account balance will be debited by $0.50. If my account balance runs out then I can't start another server until I add more funds into my account.
At the moment, if a user forgets to stop their server then it will keep running until their account balance runs dry. Which isn't great, and this is where an auto-termination feature would be handy. Perhaps as a setting on the server: "Limit this server's runtime to 3 hours"