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

Fri May 14 21:53:15 UTC 2004

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 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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