[12248] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Idea for new (?) NSP business model
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Wed May 11 11:13:27 1994
Date: Tue, 10 May 94 22:08 EDT
From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9405101604.AA04663@avalle.insoft.com> (francis@avalle.insoft.com)
Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 12:04:25 +0500
From: francis@avalle.insoft.com (John [Francis] Stracke)
Suppose I want to put up a host with some service that needs fairly
high bandwidth (say, a graphics-intensive Web site). I contact
foo.net, which has a T3, and find that I can't afford to get a T1 to
my site (e.g., if I'm a long way from POPs, like, say, here ;-), and
maybe a T1 isn't really good enough for my service anyway. So,
instead, foo.net offers to let me install my host at their site. I
get dialup IP over 14.4 from whoever (of course, foo.net would prefer
it be from them ;-), and can telnet in to maintain the host; or
perhaps I hang a modem off my host & dial in. Now my host is on the
Net at T3 speeds, and I can do whatever I want with it, but I don't
have to pay for a T3 to my site. This isn't just cheapskating on my
part; the setup is inherently cheaper.
Sure, makes perfect sense. Same principle as an industrial park.
Concentrate the ugly buildings, railroad tracks, 18-wheelers, etc.
Is anybody doing this already? Has anybody though of this already and
realized some major flaw I'm missing? There would be security issues,
of course.
Sure, I know of one NSP who has a green line of tape down the middle
of his computer room. Everything on the other side of the tape
belongs to renters. And his NOC is manned 24x7, so rebooting on a
moment's notice is no problem.
