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

[Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>]

Paul Vixie wrote:

> at scale, with things as they now are, i simply don't believe this.  with
> a 10000:1 ratio (daily customers to onduty clues), it is never going to be
> possible to contact every customer out of band (by phone, that is) when they
> need to be told how to de-virus their win/xp box.  not for $30/month.  you
> can fiddle with the ratio -- 800:1 may work -- and you might be able to hire
> clues very cheaply for a while -- but not at scale.
>
> i'd love to be proved wrong on this point.
>  
I see this as a two different processes. There are definetly some 
individuals who have no help whatsoever with their computers and need 
the abuse/helpdesk to walk them through the disinfecting process. 
However in my experience these are only a small fraction of the 
population with infected machines. It really solves 90%+ of the problem 
by just getting the message to the individual that they have a problem 
and they´ll find somebody to fix it for them.

Pete