[UnoriginalGuy]

AWS also has billing alarms. If you're running an account which should cost $15/month then for the love of god set an alarms at e.g. $20/month.

I had a reserved instance for 12 months, forgot to renew it, and on the 13th month (when it was on-demand) the usage creeped over my cap and I started getting alarms allowing me to kill the instance, renew my reserved, and restart it. Saved me at least $10.

On a related topic, I wish VPS providers allowed you to pre-pay. With Microsoft's Azure I have an MSDN Ultimate account, which has $150 of pre-paid credit on Azure. When you go over the $150 they just shut your stuff down rather than charging you (in fact I don't have a CC on there at all). They don't even offer this kind of service to non-MSDN subscriptions which sucks, I'd love to just pre-pay $50/month to them and have everything shut off when I exceed it (so it becomes a "no risk" playground).

[pmalynin]

You can prepay on Digital Ocean.

[UnoriginalGuy]

That isn't what their FAQ claims:

> Can I pay in advance?

> We do not currently accept pre-payment, but you can add additional credit to your account at anytime by sending in a PayPal payment.

https://www.digitalocean.com/help/pricing-and-billing/

[kekub]

Actually you can not pay a vps in advance, but it is like the "prepaid" mobile phone system... You can add credit to your account and pay your bills with that credit, which I think you could call "prepaid".