Getting started: prepaid usage (hourly billing from your balance) in 5 minutes

1. What does prepaid mean?

Gyro Cloud Istanbul servers and Gyro Containers (ECS) environments are prepaid instead of billed monthly:

• You first top up your account balance.
• While your service runs, the charge for every hour that starts is deducted from the balance automatically.
• No separate invoice is issued for this usage. The invoice (with VAT) is issued when you top up.
• If the balance runs out, your service is suspended. It starts again when you top up (details: Low-balance warnings, suspension and deletion).

Your other Gyro services (hosting, domains, Turkey VDS and so on) are still invoiced monthly or yearly as before.

2. Start in five steps

1. In the client area open Account Balance, choose Top Up and add at least 250 TRY (Topping up and the first-order rule).
2. Order your service: a Gyro Cloud Istanbul server or a Gyro Containers environment. The order total shows 0 TRY; the cost is deducted from your balance hourly.
3. When the order is approved, the first hour is deducted at once and provisioning starts.
4. Open Spending from the left menu: you see your balance, hourly cost and estimated time left.
5. When you are done, delete the service (Stopping and deleting a prepaid service). Just powering it off does not stop the charge.

3. Five rules to know

For worked examples see How the hourly price is calculated.

4. How much balance is enough?

Before an order, the panel checks that your balance covers the first 24 hours of the service. If it does not, the order does not complete and the panel shows the amount you need and a top-up link. In practice, topping up roughly the monthly cap of the service you plan to run keeps it from being suspended if you forget to top up. The panel also warns you at 72, 24 and 6 hours remaining.

5. Frequently asked questions