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Re: Pay-As-You-Use High-Speed Internet?
From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko () invisiblehand net>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 17:53:15 -0400
Agreed. -- Jonathan Deepak Jain wrote:
In an application where you pay-as-you-go with hard limits, the site stops responding under the slashdotted activity. The limit protects the ISP and the customer from a dispute, and the customer decides whether to rethink their hard limits or the popularity of their content.DJ Jonathan M. Slivko wrote:To answer your question, in our colo evironment, incomming traffic is free and not measured for billing purposes (but I assume this will be different on the ISP platform).As far as being slashdotted, if it does happen - then your agent from our application will watch - and adhere to - the budget that you had initially set and any "Quick Response" settings that you had set, too.Disputes, as far as what? The bandwidth that is purchased is all logged into a database for review/auditing. As for the burden of proof, see my previous statement.-- Jonathan Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:On Fri, 14 May 2004 17:22:03 EDT, "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko () invisiblehand net> said:Personally, I would like to see a senario where everyone just pays for what they use - it would be a much better system for allowing people whoQuestions? Comments? Suggestions?Who pays for a DDoS attack, or getting flooded by bounces from a spammer'sjoe-job or A/V companies warning spam when somebody else's box spoofs my e-mail address? If they have a website, who pays how much if it's slashdotted? (Seriousquestion there - I may have budgeted for only several hundred or a thousandhits a day, and if 200K hits costs too much, I may be in trouble...) How do you handle disputes? Who has the burden of proof? Those are all questions I'd be asking as a potential customer..And the biggie for you is: How do you handle these issues on a low margin? ;)
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