Are you willing to setup a server for their backups? For home users, Mozy charges $4.95 per month. If you setup your own backup server, you would have the initial expense of a server with big drive space, but you could charge $4.95 and at least save money on your upstream bandwidth.
John Mike wrote: > In my heart, I know you are right. The nature of our business is we > buy bandwidth wholesale, and then resell it to others who can't > afford to buy dedicated bandwidth. We factor an oversubscription > rate, and count on bursty, short lived traffic from users that share > the bandwidth. > > If I could afford to add bandwidth so everybody could maintain a 500 > kbps connection for days on end, then I would. But the economics are > I pay $350.00 for my first MB and $250.00 for each additional. So a > person using the system for backup is utilizing a $175.00 resource > for $42.40 a month; IF the back-up software only uses 500 kbps, and > I've seen them surge way over that. > > So, two people running Mosy hog a Meg or more of a precious > resource. Four of them, and they've used a couple MB or more. I'm > sure you get the point. > > I do have a Netequalizer in place with fairness rules that will > penalize those packets, because they are long duration IF and when > the network gets near capacity. So, they get penalized, and grandma > downloading pictures from her grand kids also gets penalized, even > though her use is bursty and infrequent, just because there is not > enough overhead on the pipe BECAUSE of the long duration back-up users. > > Without the Netequalizer, just a few of these users would bring my > network to its knees. > > I am beginning to think Mosy and their ilk belong in the same camp as > Netflix and the P2Pers. > > Mike > > At 05:51 AM 8/13/2009, you wrote: > >> Mike wrote: >> >>> Seems wrong too that a company can make money off using MY bandwidth >>> for hours on end with no compensation. >>> >> You are getting compensated, by your customer, so now it isn't really >> your bandwidth, but theirs. The customer is paying you to transport >> data, be it pictures of kittens, a HDD backup, or something else. If the >> terms of your contract are such that you can't support this usage, then >> you should probably look at changing the terms of the contract. >> >> However, I would think that it would be pretty easy to look at the flows >> and put throttling rules in place that limit Carbonite/Mozy/xyz traffic >> when there is congestion. >> >> Josh >> >> >> -- >> Josh Cheney >> josh.che...@gmail.com >> http://www.joshcheney.com >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
