Re:Image hoster pushes 1.8 PB per month through Cloudflare CDN
by derefr on Sunday October 30, 2016 @08:30PM
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> If your ISP provider says "unlimited data" does that mean you can funnel the traffic of Russia through your internet connection?
I mean, yeah. Unmetered+uncapped bandwidth is a dumb idea that creates bad incentives, and anyone offering it deserve to be punished by abusers until they rescind their offer.
If people can't proxy all of Russia through your LTE data plan—or serve a billion image hotlinks per day through your caching reverse-proxy—then you should put that in the contracts you make them sign. That's what contracts are for. Say precisely where you're drawing the line, or you don't get to complain when people act as if you haven't drawn one.
I mean, yeah. Unmetered+uncapped bandwidth is a dumb idea that creates bad incentives, and anyone offering it deserve to be punished by abusers until they rescind their offer.
If people can't proxy all of Russia through your LTE data plan—or serve a billion image hotlinks per day through your caching reverse-proxy—then you should put that in the contracts you make them sign. That's what contracts are for. Say precisely where you're drawing the line, or you don't get to complain when people act as if you haven't drawn one.