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Mrbandwidth - While you make a lot of good points, and quite honestly they apply to almost *every* small host that started in the last year, you are incorrect about bandwidth pricing.
I've been "involved' with the networking "community" for a long time now, just fringe stuff making psuedo-friends of high school kids that grew up and are now running the networks you talk a lot about today.
I guarantee you, that you can get $50/mbit with no problem if you commit to gbit levels, from a number of Tier 1 providers. (tier1 is defined as a provider that is transitless).
Of course, we're tiny as hell comparatively to the people talking here. Lack of capital tends to stave off quick development, but we've been around for over 3 years now, and have just expanded to another city and are finally able to commit to levels that at least make us somewhat price-competetive. What we lack in capital/sales staff/whatever we make up for in knowledge however, so I'm confident we will steadily (but slowly) keep on growing.
I know for an absolute fact (been quoted from multiple providers) that you can do commits for 5mbit/sec at less than $150. Shrug.
-Phil
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