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by rejacobson 3015 days ago
Thanks for the input.

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"