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That's a hilarious tactic. Are they now going to blacklist bandwidth intensive business models one by one until only blogs and "under construction" pages are l
by moe 16y ago
That's a hilarious tactic.
Are they now going to blacklist bandwidth intensive business models one by one until only blogs and "under construction" pages are left on their "high bandwidth" plans?
- tptacek 16y agoIt's amusing in context, but it's not an absurd contract term. Hosting a CDN on an "unlimited" hosting provider is basically bandwidth arbitrage. It makes total sense that the hosting provider would want to limit their hosting to bona fide hosting customers.
- wmf 16y agoYeah, never arbitrage the arbitrageurs; they won't stand for it.
- tptacek 16y agoWhy should they? Companies have every right to choose their own business model.
- moe 16y agoIn this particular case it comes across as more than a little bit shady. When you advertise aggressively with high volume/high bandwidth, when you even rename your company from 10tb.com to 100tb.com, then one would hope you'd handle it a tad bit more professionally when someone calls your bluff. I wonder if they considered that by pulling the plug on SimpleCDN like this they've also effectively terminated their own business. Nobody in their right mind will host at 100tb after this event.
- tptacek 16y agoLike I said, in context, it's amusing. That contract term, though, is totally reasonable.
- nphase 16y agoI was wondering the ame thing. If I were to start youtube on 100tb, would I be blacklisted too?