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Few comments - I know I'm late :)

Net neutrality has everything to do with pay-per-use Internet. You either pay fair $$$ per GB transfer or you cannot have net neutrality. If someone uses 80GB a month, they would have to pay quite a lot for that. Consider the following prices,

    http://www.tera-byte.com/colocated.php

$1/GB at highest utilization. The costs to them is actually about that. In the US, the prices are a little less, but not by much. So you see the problem with people using 100GB a month, paying $40 and expecting they can continue to do that without costing someone else. That's why unlimited doesn't work. Imagine if you had "unlimited electrical power" plan. Blackouts everywhere because someone feels they can heat their driveway to melt snow instead of shoveling. Hey, unlimited right?

Current T1, T3 and OC3 prices indicate that bandwidth costs about $1-$2/GB. Hence a fair payment for end users to to pay something like $40/mo, have 30GB/mo available in that price. Then they pay $1.50/GB for the rest. It would mean people using 100GB would end up paying $145/mo. But then at least *everyone* would pay their use of the bandwidth. Telcos would not be able to say that they need to charge more for "youtube" traffic or other BS. Traffic is traffic, whether it is you tube or otherwise.

I want fair per-per-use, neutral to traffic Internet access that is still affordable for normal usage. The unlimited gimmick is just prone to abuse hence no serious provider has it.

T1 connection? They cost generally $400-$1000 / month. Some areas are cheaper, $250-$500. Their bandwidth is 1.5Mbps or 187.5kB/s or 463GB/month. This ends up with at least $1/mo or more for T1.

OC3 connection, 155Mbps @ $20k-45k/month gives you 47,900KB or $0.50-1.00/GB. Again, depends where you live. $15k-100k, depends on location.

The stuff you get from ISP is oversold stuff that you cannot use up. It is designed for burst traffic only that averages over their entire userbase to fill a few OC3s. You can't use up 10% of all the bandwidth of 10000 customers and expect to get away with it.

http://www.infobahn.com/research-information.htm
http://www.broadbandlocators.com/oc3.php
http://www.tera-byte.com/colocated.php

I left them (moving to tera-byte) over 5 years ago. At the time, C I Host had all sorts of DNS problems, yet they continued to deny there was any problem.

I've always loved Tera-Byte. A hosting company out of Edmonton, AB, they'll build you a server to taste, or you can send them your own hardware to co-locate. http://web.tera-byte.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=serv ices.colocated

I think I'll use that box to do all my bittorrent downloads from here on out. Not sure if the privacy laws in the great white north will protect an expat like myself, but I figure my odds are somewhat better to NOT get sued up there.

www.tera-byte.com

I've been very happy with them. Mysql/php, etc.

I'm only on a shared server (its all i need), but they offer dedicated servers, too.

Here are thier virtual server plans, seems to fit what you are looking for:

http://www.tera-byte.com/hosting.html

FYI, I have plan 4U.

You can have this today. They call it Virtual Private (or Dedicated) Servers (VPS/VDS). I know a handful of places offering this.

• http://www.tera-byte.com/vir.html
• http://www.cagedtornado.com/
• http://linuxvds.com/
• http://www.fluidhosting.com/vps/
• http://www.velocityserver.com/