Need You Input... New Service Offering Viability

[XFR Networks]

Hi.

I recently started a new company to help reduce the operational expenses for webmasters and content producers.

I would like to get as much feedback from you on how to tailor the offering so it will be effective and useful. It has not launched yet, and it is important to me that the offering be of significant value to the webmaster community.

Your feedback would be most welcome. Positive or Negative.

To simplify, our service shops for the worlds highest quality, cheapest bandwidth for webmasters, hosting firms, content producers, etc. We shop for this bandwidth both domestically, and internationally. We then purchase this bandwidth by the Gbit, and pass the savings we realize by buying bulk, on to the webmaster (customer).

Now, to use our service, you would need to upload your binary content, the content that is expensive to serve (byte wise), to our firms CDN. We then place a copy of that content (cache) on each network where we have purchased bandwidth in bulk. When your visitors access your home page, IMG URLS are linked back to our Content Distribution Network (CDN) and binary data (Images, Movies, Binary Files, Banner Ad's, etc) is then delivered to you visitor by the most efficient route available by us.

You still have the ability to formulate dynamic pages, count hits, and geographically target your content. The binary data is simply delivered off of another network... ours.

The concept has been done before (Akamai, etc), however, our service is price oriented. By purchasing high-quality bandwidth in bulk, we think we can significantly reduce the cost of operating a web site that experiences high-traffic volume.

So.. here are some of the questions..

1: If a service liked this existed, would you consider using it?

2: What do you think would be your top five decision factors for converting to this service?

3: How would you determine the value of a service like this?

3: Is it easier for you to determine the value of the offering if the offering was priced by Mbits transferred or Gbytes per month.

4: What would you pay for a service like this
Mbit / second?
GByte / Month?

5: What type of SLA or guarantee would you need before using the service, if any? Would you pay more for the SLA?

Thanks for your time.

You can contact me directly at [email protected]

Ray

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[Squishy]

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[playa]

i can't see this as being a cost saving plan for a webmaster,,, bandwidth is cheap any ways 1.50 per gig for the most,,,

this will only be cost effective if were charging lets say .50 per gig

and most webmasters that use videos just lease the feeds from content distributers anyways,,,you might wanna target them groups

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[MindWaste]

I think it sounds COo.. I dont think anyone whould actually care about what process that it goes through as long as it works and it works fast.. Other then that I think most people rather not know how it works and rather just focus on the Price and the quality..

I dunno though.. Sounds COo though.. Its kinda like just running off a bunch of proxy servers and have em all working togeather for the fastest possible route.. Actually that is what it is cept that you actually whould host the files instead of be downloading them if you were surfin with the servers.. ::shrugs::

Sounds good though...

[MindWaste]

Originally posted by playa:
i can't see this as being a cost saving plan for a webmaster,,, bandwidth is cheap any ways 1.50 per gig for the most,,,

this will only be cost effective if were charging lets say .50 per gig

and most webmasters that use videos just lease the feeds from content distributers anyways,,,you might wanna target them groups

Actually it whould probably end up making everything run faster.. sence if there is a server that is closer to where you physically are then the data dosent have to travel as far..

[m0rph3us]

Yeah, what he said!

[MindWaste]

LOL m0rph3us..