> How does anyone justify this risk? I'm more concerned about the risk mitigation strategies (capping) I'm seeing advocated. If your servers being pegged you'

> How does anyone justify this risk? I'm more concerned about the risk mitigation strategies (capping) I'm seeing advocated. If your servers being pegged you've only got a few customers missing out while it's pegged, maybe even everyone getting service but sub-optimally. You can ride out the wave and everything goes back to normal. Putting caps in place is like pulling the plug out of the server after the CPU has been at 100% for 5 minutes and not plugging it in until the next billing cycle.