Every time I open a new technology news website, I find myself reading more and more about ISPs coming out with 10Mbps, 15, 30, and now 50-100Mbps speeds....Our sites are hosted on a burstable 1.5meg connection in co-lo. We used to host out of our office because we had all the hardware necessary there, but even 1 year ago, a single T1 couldn't keep up. Our next move would have been a multiple T's or a DS3, but obviously very cost prohibitive. So now we are in a rack in a co-lo wondering when bandwidth pricing is going to start coming inline with what consumers are paying to access our sites.
Give a script kiddie and some of his friends a 15, 30 or 50 meg connection and sites will be falling off the map from DDOS attacks at record paces. Or for those who pay transfer by the gigabyte might find the only thing moving at lightning speeds is money out of their wallets....
Either ISPs have to show a little restraint in who they roll these connections out, or hosting facility pricing has to come WAY down....
/rant.
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