RE: [cobalt-users] [General] Bandwidth charges

["Todd Kirk" <tkirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>What we would like to do is not to charge customers for bandwidth used, but
>rather the upper limit set in the Cobalt GUI in an incremental manner. In a
>way, customers would be paying for speed rather than bandwidth, the way I
>see it. Thus if they have huge traffic, their site would essentially be
>bogged down (we have unique IPs for most sites). Their option would then be
>to purchase a higher bandwidth limit.
>
>Does this sound like a reasonable implementation?
>
>If so, could anyone give advice on what would be reasonable limit-levels to
>offer? We have not done any detailed calculations yet. If anyone has, we
>would like to hear about for what levels you charge.
I don't pretend to know a great deal about this, but you may wish to search
for Internet Providers or webhosts that offer Quality of Service (QoS)
plans, this may give you an idea of how they sell such services and perhaps
some pricing info too. It was a big media hype but I haven't really seen too
much down here in the land down for QoS services.

regards,

Todd Kirk