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"How do you handle such users at MediaFire?" You silently and/or passive aggressively throttle the whales in such a way that they go away. I learned this a lo
by rsync 6y ago
"How do you handle such users at MediaFire?"
You silently and/or passive aggressively throttle the whales in such a way that they go away.
I learned this a long time ago (1998) while consulting for a very large and successful early web host (Simplenet). They allowed unlimited bandwidth and one of my first questions was "how do you make that work?".
They mercilessly throttled the top 1-2% of users until they just went away. Easy.
That very well illustrated to me what happens when interests are not aligned. The provider is going to actively work against you - as opposed to actively enable you.
- brianwski 6y ago> You silently and/or passive aggressively throttle the whales in such a way that they go away. Carbonite is an online backup provider that got caught doing this by the U.K. government in 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonite,_Inc.#Misleading_advertising_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonite,_Inc.#Misleading_adv...