On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Alex Aminoff wrote:
>> My idea for pricing is a per-GB transfer, plus a per-IP address/month >> charge, on top of a low base rate to cover the cost of running the >> service. I am toying with the idea of offering prepaid 'bandwidth >> cards'. Policing spammers would be a hassle, but spammers can be >> dissuaded by charging a higher rate for outbound port 25 traffic than >> for other ports. > > BaseSpace already has a /24, assigned from Cogent, and an ASN. Your > solution would be a possibility, though if your pricing is per GB that > might not work well for us since current traffic is in the 100s of > GB/month and one reason for doing this is so that we could take > advantage of the big FIOS pipe to potentially use much more. You can see > BaseSpace's traffic here: http://www.basespace.net/mrtg/ Per GB is based on my cost. In bulk, my bandwidth drops, so I could arrange a minimum monthly charge and lower cost per GB, or price by bandwidth instead of of per GB. I selected a pricing based in GB because most people would use this as backup bandwidth. In many business plans, non-recurring-charges would make more sense in this case. I'd also like to add some point-to-point microwave circuits in the future. The problem with this is that I'd need to commit to real-estate leases which costs me flexibility. -Bob _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
