I somehow doubt that any company in this thread who was in their position, using your own profits would have been able to stand up to microsoft/washington state. Of course that being said... most sane people would come to an agreement with them.

You might make 10-15/mbit more than they did, but dont forget they sold 200,000 megabits more than you (literally). if they made ONLY $1/mbit per server (which I'm betting they made more than that) they still ownz you. :2 cents:

true that, and trust me -- im an industry professional.

the company is named in the lawsuit, the fines alone would probably bankrupt it

Being located in Seattle, and located 1 block away from the Courthouse, I can personally testify to their brutal effectiveness (mainly b/c they have a great cafeteria and its reasonably fun to watch). Even when they don't win the case, they still ruin your business.

Hell just being NAMED in the articles with this was probably massive damage to their business.

This was just posted on WHT

Now I have read it,

I can be pretty close to some of the AR Pricing and we can offer Free transitions, We have competitive non-cogent bandwidth, call me up all weekend, if anyone needs help.

818-636-6710

4 USD is no problem to rich, if you have a big amount of bandwidth and still make a profit or at least make profit on rent of servers. But we speak about 5 gbits and more. With price 400$ server + 100 mbps traffic is quote difficult to cover costs.

Alex.

Absolute, total bullshit. You can take it to 50, 100, 200 gigabit and you're still wrong. One could at best wash on the wholesale costs of the raw bandwidth (which is only a portion of the expense to delivering network) but would absolutely lose money in scale even with server rental or colocation. In any scale, there must be margin on every component or the model isn't viable.

Brad

Brad, i believe that you buy he.net at least for 4 USD per mbit or more cheap :)

Alex.

I just got this announcement:

"We want to thank you for your patience over the course of the past day, and offer you some reassurance and information regarding our efforts to sustain a viable future for Alpha Red and our valued clients. As of this afternoon, we have received a Letter of Intent and have entered into negotiations with CWIE Holding Company, Inc, parent company of CCBill on an agreement to further protect and secure your ongoing service.

Please know that we are working diligently with CWIE, and our hope is to bring more details to you as they become available through the weekend, and into Monday.


Many thanks!

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=726847"

If its true...i dont know.

And you would be incorrect, again. The $4 HE promotion isn't a true $4 rate, it's for a fully committed 1g or 10g port and isn't even a burstable product.

Brad

this must really suck for some people. i guess if it is too good to be true...

Some links have been posted in this thread, such as this one:
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technol...ers/index.html

Just to let you know, on 10GE full port you can get a better price :)

Good Luck, Alex.