DDoS attacks

[Atlas Sneezed]

Uh, unless GPUs are going to make bandwidth irrelevant, that's not happening. The cost of the hardware is basically one month's cost of bandwidth expenses.

Hence the "depending on how you look at it". I actually haven't been around wholesale traffic side of things for decades now. How does billing for traffic work nowadays, what are the rates? Last time i was involved in an ix, paying for traffic was scarce, it was an honor system, and hardware for multigigabit bandwidth was fucking expensive