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Re: Web Host Concept
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lugnet.publish
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Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:36:33 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Mike Thorn wrote:
> At 10:46 AM 10/31/2003, Larry Spoke Thus:
> > > The fun part comes with the payment: each member of the service pays
> > > monthly. The cool thing about that is that the payment is reevaluated and
> > > split equally each month among all the members.
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> > Why equally split? Suppose I have a high traffic site that hosts movies and
> > therefore consumes lots of bandwidth. Why should I get to pay the same as some
> > guy who hosts a few highly compressed gifs and doesn't get a lot of traffic.
> > Very unfair to him.
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> Yes. BUT...
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> If the payment was done on a resource-consumption basis, the guy like you
> that chokes out a gigabyte or two of bandwidth each month would be paying
> much, much more than the small price you pay under the equally-split
> system. You get "something for nothing", in a sense.
That's my exact point. It is not fair for me to get something for nothing. Not
fair to everyone else who is now paying MORE than they ought to have to. Either
you get this concept, or you don't.
In this scheme, you are setting yourself up for a tragedy of the commons.
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| (...) Well, then, in that case...can we agree to disagree? :) If you want to carry on privately that's fine but I don't really want to start a debate. You see the system as unfair, I ask "who wouldn't pass up hosting that starts at $4 and only gets (...) (21 years ago, 31-Oct-03, to lugnet.publish)
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| At 10:46 AM 10/31/2003, Larry Spoke Thus: (...) Yes. BUT... If the payment was done on a resource-consumption basis, the guy like you that chokes out a gigabyte or two of bandwidth each month would be paying much, much more than the small price you (...) (21 years ago, 31-Oct-03, to lugnet.publish)
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