Originally Posted by k0nr4d

Thanks for the advice - but keep in mind we are really hitting two different markets. You are doing paysites and we are doing mostly tubes. A paysite wont get the traffic or even have a fraction of the bandwidth usage as a tube, and thus the risk/reward is someone doesn't pay is much worse when you dont have your own infrastructure and aren't paying huge bandwidth commitments anyways. Someone might get a sudden surge to their tube, use thousands of TB in bandwidth and decide not to pay - i'd suddenly be on the hook for a ton of money but at the same time not enough to litigate internationally for.

It's of course different if you are a webhost and have your own infrastructure. Webhosts buy their bandwidth in blocks so they are paying weither they're clients are using it or not - that same client that doesn't pay is just lost profit, not an out of pocket cost like it would be for me. They'd be out of pocket the server cost but would just resell it to another customer down the line later anyways.

That's why having a deal with Mojohost like we do works for us rather then trying to do it ourselves.