I want to make sure that i dont accidentally do something which makes the bill sky rocket, is there a way to put a limit on how much resource or money a project can spend before it shuts down? or something similar to that.
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Heya,
DigitalOcean does not currently offer an automated way to cap your usage and shut down your services once you reach a specific billing level.
What I personally do is to set up billing alerts to notify me when my spending reaches a certain threshold. You can set those thresholds pretty low so that you would get notified early.
You can also write a shell script to shutdown your Droplets so that you could do that quickly in case that you get an alert. You can use the doctl CLI to do that:
https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/compute/droplet-action/shutdown/
The best thing to do to get your voice heard regarding this would be to head over to our Product Ideas board and post a new idea, including as much information as possible for what you’d like to see implemented.
Heya, @hampternt
You can set up billing alerts and we will email you if the monthly spending exceeds an amount you specify.
Hope that this helps!
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