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Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?


From: Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 23:38:01 +0200


Christopher L. Morrow wrote:


how are 'servers' (smtp/web/ftp/imap) different than the existing P2P
apps? Wouldn't a cable provider, if the decision was based on upstream
bandwidth sharing alone, care MORE about P2P than 'servers' ?
But the decision is a business decision, because you can make "businesses" pay more for something that can run servers. And it´s harder to kludge smtp/http/etc. to work where servers are not permitted as p2p works by default.

Pete


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