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Originally Posted by Wizzo
Though hosting has gotten dirt cheap, I wonder if people would be willing to pay more if that increase bumped out some of their competition?
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The problem is "big" sites that have their own network sure, paynig access to comcast/etc is already done through paid peering arrangements. Companies already pay reduce rates to get into other networks. Now, prioritizing that traffic to get to the end users within that network is a different story, but connecting to people such as say comcast directly is already being done.
Comcast peers for free with large networks. What they can't peer or get traffic wise they pay for. That rate? probably 2-4/Mbps. If a company like us goes to comcast and says hey we want faster access to your customers. We will pay you 1/Mbps for your own traffic to your own network. Comcast will be happy to negotiate a rate thats less than their transit rates for their own traffic, basically cut down on their own expenses while making money. So they will save 2/Mbps and make 1/Mbps for a net gain of 3/Mbps worth of traffic that you send them directly.
Do you really think comcast will give two craps for their end users to get faster access to "specific" sites/networks within their network going to their end nodes? You bet your ass they wont.