[68568] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sun Mar 14 16:38:43 2004
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 23:38:01 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
Cc: Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org>,
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>,
North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0403142043050.15373@rampart.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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 itīs harder to kludge smtp/http/etc. to work where servers are not
permitted as p2p works by default.
Pete
