[68606] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Mon Mar 15 01:19:13 2004
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 15 Mar 2004 06:18:42 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4054A497.6010704@iglou.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
jeffm@iglou.com (Jeff McAdams) writes:
> No, you're presenting a false dichotomy. A provider can provide a
> first-rate abuse desk, and still be price competitive. It can be done.
> It requires a fair amount of clue level in the ISP, but it most
> definitely can be done.
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.
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Paul Vixie
