Monthly bills and operator payouts are worked out from the whole month, once
TL;DR: The monthly close counted only a month's last week of bandwidth and could run again after a restart. It now uses every day of the month and closes each month once. Nobody has been charged or paid during the open beta.
Evolving Edge is in open beta: no customer has been charged and no operator has been paid, so no bill or payout has been wrong in practice. Before either is switched on, we fixed two problems in how each month is closed, the step that works out each workspace’s monthly bill and each operator’s payout.
The close looked only at the last seven days of a month’s bandwidth, and a restart on our side could make it close the previous month again. It now counts the whole month and closes each month once.
What’s fixed
- The whole month counts. Each day’s bandwidth is taken from the full month’s records, not just the last week. If a restart meant a day’s daily record was never written, it is now filled in afterwards.
- Each month is closed once. A finished bill is never changed, and overage is never added to a bill twice.
- A close that fails partway is retried for the failed parts only, so bills and payouts that were already worked out stay as they are.
What you need to do
Nothing.