Originally Posted by Snake Doctor

I don't want to get into it with Brad, but I can't resist putting my 2 cents in here.

You guys (expensive hosts) were saying the same thing about cogent hosts years ago when they were selling for $30 a meg....."it's below cost, they'll go out of business, etc etc"

Sure some of them went out of business, so did some hosts who charged 3 times as much too....but the fact is the bandwidth market changed and eventually people like you had to follow suit.
There was prediction after prediction from all of the "experts" in hosting that once cogent and the hosts using cogent went bankrupt that prices would go back to the $75-100 per meg level.
Guess what? Now mojohost is selling bandwidth for $15 per meg......and go figure, that price happens to be roughly 2-3 times the price that some other places are charging....places that you say are going to go out of business because their model is unsustainable and they're selling below cost.......basically the exact same thing you were saying 3 years ago about the guys charging $30 per meg.
Forgive me if I don't hold my breath and wait for your predictions to come true.

I'm sure your customers are happy with the service you provide and feel that your prices are well worth what you charge, and that's great, that's the way it should be, but that doesn't give you the right to come bash the people who are underselling you.

Alphared's current problems have nothing to do with their prices or business model, they're because of a lawsuit.