To prevent impacts of host downtime on your service, you must renew your hosts before they expire. This topic describes how to renew a host.

Prerequisites

A host is purchased. For information, see Create a host.

Host specifications and prices

Rules for stopping and releasing expired hosts

Expiration and overdue payments

Manual renewal

Renew a host

  1. Log on to the ApsaraDB for MyBase console.
  2. In the upper-left corner of the page, select a region.
  3. In the left-side navigation pane, click Dedicated Clusters. Find the dedicated cluster that you want to manage and click Details in the Actions column.
  4. In the left-side navigation pane, click Hosts. Find the host that you want to renew and choose More > Renew in the Actions column.
  5. On the Renew page, select a duration, and then read and select the Terms of Service.
  6. Click Buy Now and complete the payment.

Renew multiple hosts at a time

  1. Log on to the ApsaraDB for MyBase console.
  2. In the top navigation bar, choose Expenses > Renewal Management.
  3. Select the hosts that you want to renew and click Batch Renew.
  4. On the page that appears, configure the Duration parameter, click Pay, and then complete the payment.

Enable auto-renewal

After you enable auto-renewal for a host, the host is automatically renewed before it expires. You can enable this feature for hosts to prevent them from being automatically released.

Precautions

  • Make sure that your Alibaba Cloud account has sufficient balance.
  • If all of the three automatic fee deduction attempts fail, you must manually renew your host before the expiration date. This prevents host downtime that may cause data loss.
  • Auto-renewal takes effect the next day after it is enabled. If the expiration date of your host is the next day, we recommend that you manually renew the host to prevent service interruptions.

Enable auto-renewal when you purchase a host

When you purchase a subscription host, select Auto-renewal.

Enable auto-renewal after you purchase a host

  1. Log on to the ApsaraDB for MyBase console.
  2. In the top navigation bar, choose Expenses > Renewal Management.
  3. Select one of the following methods to enable auto-renewal:
    • Enable auto-renewal for a single host: Find the host for which you want to enable auto-renewal and click Enable Auto Renewal in the Actions column.
    • Enable auto-renewal for one or more hosts: Select one or more hosts for which you want to enable auto-renewal and click Enable Auto Renewal.
  4. In the Enable Auto Renewal dialog box, specify the renewal cycle and click Auto Renew.

Change the auto-renewal cycle

You can change the auto-renewal cycle of a host.

  1. Log on to the ApsaraDB for MyBase console.
  2. In the top navigation bar, choose Expenses > Renewal Management.
  3. Select one of the following methods to change the auto-renewal cycle:
    • Change the auto-renewal cycle of a single host: Find the host whose auto-renewal cycle you want to change and click Edit Auto Renewal in the Actions column.
    • Change the auto-renewal cycle of one or more hosts: Select one or more hosts whose auto-renewal cycle you want to change and click Edit Auto Renewal.
  4. In the dialog box that appears, change the auto-renewal cycle and click OK.

Disable auto-renewal

If you no longer require auto-renewal for a host after the current billing cycle, you can disable auto-renewal for the host.

  1. Log on to the ApsaraDB for MyBase console.
  2. In the top navigation bar, choose Expenses > Renewal Management.
  3. Select one of the following methods to disable auto-renewal:
    • Disable auto-renewal for a single host: Find the host for which you want to disable auto-renewal and click Enable Manual Renewal in the Actions column.
    • Disable auto-renewal for one or more hosts: Select one or more hosts for which you want to disable auto-renewal and click Enable Manual Renewal.
  4. In the message that appears, click OK.

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