You get what you pay for. When I'm paying for a $16/megabit @95th on a 10 Gig port, and I get hit with a DDOS, it's my providers problem, because I'm not payin

You get what you pay for. When I'm paying for a $16/megabit @95th on a 10 Gig port, and I get hit with a DDOS, it's my providers problem, because I'm not paying $16/megabit for DDOS traffic, so they need to stop that stuff before it gets to me (ideally without impacting my customers) Contrawise ,if I'm paying $2-$3/megabit @95th on a 1 Gig Port, the amount of support I can expect during a DDOS is pretty minimal, so I end up having to take the hit - but my damage is limited to $3000/month so I don't really care. Any time I see a "We don't charge for Bandwidth" service, I interpret it to mean one of (A) We'll throttle you once you exceed our unspoken limit, or (B) We'll discontinue your service. (Drop your port from 1 Gig down to 100 Megabits, or slower, traffic shape you, etc...) once you breach that limit. There is no sustainable third option for those who provision reasonably high quality transit, and those who believe there is will one day wake up with their internet property offline, or seriously degraded.