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Prepaid model

How balance, top-ups, and balance-low handling work across all payment methods.

Status: skeleton

Full content lands in a follow-up pass.

Top up

Pay any amount in card, BTC, or XMR. Balance applies on confirmation:

  • Card: instant
  • BTC: 6 confirmations (~60 minutes)
  • XMR: 10 confirmations (~20 minutes)

Plan fees deduct from balance daily (monthly fee / 30). Egress over plan quota deducts at the metered rate, also daily.

Balance-low alerts

  • 30 days of runway remaining: in-portal notification
  • 14 days: notification + email (if email on file)
  • 7 days: louder notification
  • 0: service stops. No grace period.

The hard-stop on zero is intentional — a grace period would require us to track an unpaid debt against an account we may never be able to reach (anonymous tenants). Hard stop preserves the anonymity premise: we have no commercial leverage over you, and we don't try to invent any.

Topping up before zero

You can top up at any time. The portal estimates days-of-runway based on current spend rate.

After service stops

  • Sites return 503 Service Unavailable
  • Origin fetches stop
  • Configuration is retained for the standard 30-day soft-delete window
  • Top up at any time within that window to restore service
  • After 30 days, the account is hard-deleted along with all configuration