On Friday, 14 February, 2020 09:17, "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> said:
> After all - it's not like *they* are going to feel the pain of a single 106G > upload, > it's somebody else who feels the pain of 5 million downloads of a 106G image > refresh. > > Economists call this sort of thing an "externality". I must admit, I'm blissfully unaware of CDN commercials, but I'd have expected that if I give a CDN my binary 100G binary blob and six people download it, I'd be billed a different amount to if six million people download it - and similarly if that blob is 1G vs 100G. I guess I'm asking if there's an underlying problem with the model here, or if it's just the details of the numbers that are "wrong" in encouraging / discouraging certain behaviours. Regards, Tim.
