RE: [google-appengine] Two entries in billing history for the same day, one with charges and inflated hours, what is going on ?

[Brandon Wirtz]

If you saw my post on Google Bot consuming 85k page views in a day seemingly out of the blue, Yes I have seen hours jump even when traffic in Analytics don’t.

 

Google Just switched to “Google Wallet” I got lots of micro bills when that happened… (Like 30 charges under 30 cents) which was part of what pushed me to combine as many of my apps as possible.

 

 

From: google-a...@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-a...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Hoffman
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 3:09 PM
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Subject: [google-appengine] Two entries in billing history for the same day, one with charges and inflated hours, what is going on ?

 

Hi

 

I just recieved a bill (admittedly small) for the 2011-11-20.  In my billing in history I have in fact

two entries for that day, and in fact for the same time.  One has billable hours of 117 and the other 16.7

 

This has never happened before (that many hours used and two entries in the billing history for the exact same period)

 

This seems very odd, and in fact wrong.  Our site never gets that much traffic and billable hours never gets above 20 hours.

 

Any one else seen this ?

 

Rgds

 

Tim

 

 

2011-11-20 13:22:17	Charge Sent	$2.10	$2.10
	Billing Admin:xxxxxxxxx If you would like to optimize your application to reduce your costs in the future, make sure to read our Optimization Article. If you have any additional questions or concerns, please contact us at appengine_up...@google.com. Frontend Instance Hour costs reflect a 50% price reduction active until December 1st, 2011. Resource Used Free Billable Charge Frontend Instance Hours  $0.04/Hour 117.97 28.00 89.97 $0.00 Discounted Instance Hour  $0.025/Hour 0.00 0.00 0.00 $0.00 Unused Discounted Instance Hour  $0.025/Hour 0.00 0.00 0.00 $0.00 Backend Instance Hours  $0.08/Hour 0.00 9.00 0.00 $0.00 Datastore Storage  $0.008/GByte-day 0.16 1.00 0.00 $0.00 Taskqueue Storage  $0.008/GByte-day 0.00 0.49 0.00 $0.00 Blobstore Storage  $0.0043/GByte-day 0.00 5.00 0.00 $0.00 Datastore Writes  $1.00/Million Ops 0.00 0.05 0.00 $0.00 Datastore Reads  $0.70/Million Ops 0.03 0.05 0.00 $0.00 Small Datastore Operations  $0.10/Million Ops 0.00 0.05 0.00 $0.00 Bandwidth Out  $0.12/GByte 0.23 1.00 0.00 $0.00 Emails  $0.01/100 Recipients 0.00 1.00 0.00 $0.00 XMPP Stanzas  $0.10/100K Stanzas 0.00 0.10 0.00 $0.00 Opened Channels  $0.01/100 Opens 0.00 1.00 0.00 $0.00 Minimum Spend  $2.10/Week $2.10 Total: $2.10

 

and 

 

2011-11-20 13:22:17	Usage Report for 2011-11-19		$0.00
	If you would like to optimize your application to reduce your costs in the future, make sure to read our Optimization Article. If you have any additional questions or concerns, please contact us at appengine_up...@google.com. Frontend Instance Hour costs reflect a 50% price reduction active until December 1st, 2011. Resource Used Free Billable Charge Frontend Instance Hours  $0.04/Hour 16.17 28.00 0.00 $0.00 Discounted Instance Hour  $0.025/Hour 0.00 0.00 0.00 $0.00 Backend Instance Hours  $0.08/Hour 0.00 9.00 0.00 $0.00 Datastore Storage  $0.008/GByte-day 0.03 1.00 0.00 $0.00 Taskqueue Storage  $0.008/GByte-day 0.00 0.49 0.00 $0.00 Blobstore Storage  $0.0043/GByte-day 0.00 5.00 0.00 $0.00 Datastore Writes  $1.00/Million Ops 0.00 0.05 0.00 $0.00 Datastore Reads  $0.70/Million Ops 0.01 0.05 0.00 $0.00 Small Datastore Operations  $0.10/Million Ops 0.00 0.05 0.00 $0.00 Bandwidth Out  $0.12/GByte 0.04 1.00 0.00 $0.00 Emails  $0.01/100 Recipients 0.00 1.00 0.00 $0.00 XMPP Stanzas  $0.10/100K Stanzas 0.00 0.10 0.00 $0.00 Opened Channels  $0.01/100 Opens 0.00 1.00 0.00 $0.00 Total: $0.00

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[Tim Hoffman]

Actually I am stupid, I just realized that the actual charge is for the minimum billing spend. 

 They are just inflating the used hours in the statement for some reason, which through me off. 

That shouldn't be necessary, they should just rely on the minimum spend line item.

 Also the billing invoice doesn't say what the period of the invoice is.

Sheepishly pulls ones head in ;-)

T