Talk:Burstable billing

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I tried to extend a bit, clea up and also added the critics. I'll put it on my watchlist. --Illtillwillkillbill 17:23, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] critics

In this section the sentance "A good datacenter/upstream will allow you to upgrade your commitment and therefor benefit of other pricing options if they notice these type of peak patterns." seems to be against NPOV. I suggest removing it or strongly rephrasing.--Mattarata 16:31, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

I removed the section --Mattarata 02:52, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Only saw your edit now (if this thingy would only generate emails ;-)), but why is this sentence against NPOV when it's simply the truth? Good DC will not take advantage of your sudden peak or rise in traffic, but will allow you to upgrade the commitment and stay within a better financial frame. --till 18:40, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Claiming that something or someone is good or better than something else is a point of view, especially in this case. If you must present a proint of view in an article, then you need to present the opposing view and be totally netural on the whole situation. We are not here to pass judgement on business or industry practices, rather present facts as they are proven and agreed upon by the community.

Say you buy transit bandwidth from a major backbone such as AT&T or Verio. You sign a contract with them to buy bandwidth at a certain price. Sometimes they build tiers into the pricing and sometimes they don't. If they do not give you tier pricing, and simply sell you bandwidth at a fixed price for a fixed term, how are they a bad company when you start to use way more than what your originally predicted? By your logic, if they hold you to the terms in which you both agreed they are bad, but if they waive their contract and allow you to have the pricing changed then they are good? I would say that the customer that demands to have their contract changed when they start to use more than what they predicted might be the "bad" party where as the company that writes good fair legal contracts and then holds customers to those contracts might be the "good" party.

Now you could be referring to a company that will "upgrade" a commitment so that the customer pays more overall due to the commit but slightly less per Mbps/GB/whatever. This could be seen as good to the customer and also good to the company, but again its really POV and not for us to decide. --Mattarata 22:11, 5 October 2006 (UTC)