Pay-As-You-Use High-Speed Internet?

Wed Jan 14 22:48:48 UTC 2004

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 at vt.edu wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 14 May 2004 17:22:03 EDT, "Jonathan M. Slivko" 
>> <jslivko at 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 who 
>>
>>
>>
>>> Questions? Comments? Suggestions?
>>
>>
>>
>> Who pays for a DDoS attack, or getting flooded by bounces from a 
>> spammer's
>> joe-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?  (Serious
>> question there - I may have budgeted for only several hundred or a 
>> thousand
>> hits 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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