On Sat, 13 Nov 2010, Christopher Morrow wrote:
as per usual, vzb's website is a poor excuse for a marketting tool (or sales tool, or information gathering tool.. ugh) but, bullet #2 is one option (that register.com I think actually was offered at one point in time...)
is 3250/month cheaper than sla payouts from 3 days of running outages each year or so?
It depends :-) Maybe the SLA excludes outages caused by DDOS? What's the one time cost of a lawyer writing an exclusion in a SLA compared to the monhly recuring cost of paying an ISP for DDOS protection? For example, how much does VZB's? own internet network SLA pay for DDOS caused ouages if you don't pay the extra $3250/month for VZB's DDOS protection service? Maybe future ISP bills will look like this Internet access 1000/Mbps $1/month Internet modem rental $2.95/month Inside wiring protection $6/month Outside fiber cut protection $99/month Loss of power protection $995/month DDOS attack protection $3,250/month Route hijacking protection $3,995/month Operator error protection $5,995/month Natural hazards protection $6,325/month Unnatural hazards protection $7,750/month Collision and Comprehensive $9,500/month - includes asteroid extinction events if anyone is left to collect Is it less expensive to pay your ISP for SLA insurance, or to buy business interruption insurance from an insurance company? On the other hand, what types of outages should be covered by the cost of Internet access, and what things do you pay extra for an ISP to respond? If ISP's think of DDOS as a revenue opportunity, why should ISPs do anything to avoid millions of Bots launching DDOS attacks? Fewer bots might reduce the need for customers to buy DDOS protection services.