>with 500% markup for the same speed, single dedicated IP, and a pretty poor SLA).
This is overly cynical. There's a world of difference between your crappy Comcast line at home and my fiber line at work. Unless you're actually responsible for an infrastructure, then I don't think its easy to appreciate the difference, but yes, its worth every penny. You may not realize it but jitter, latency, routing, etc are far, far better on proper business lines. Not to mention SLA's, dedicated bandwidth, and actually having someone to yell at on the phone who can do something for you instead of being yet another anonymous schmuck on discounted service that's oversold and runs like crap.
Oh, at previous gigs we tried "business cable" which was laughable. All the downsides of Comcast but somehow even worse uptimes and incompetence.
Personally, I agree that smtp traffic originating from residential blocks should be weighed much heavier than other blocks. Wanna see my mail logs at my spam filter edge? Most Windows computer in the world has been taken over in some fashion by malware. Its worse than you think out there.
I can't give real logs because of privacy concerns but in the past 7 days we've been at 79.2% spam. Roughly 2% of that is straight up malware like cryptolocker, various botnets, trojans, etc.
This is overly cynical. There's a world of difference between your crappy Comcast line at home and my fiber line at work. Unless you're actually responsible for an infrastructure, then I don't think its easy to appreciate the difference, but yes, its worth every penny. You may not realize it but jitter, latency, routing, etc are far, far better on proper business lines. Not to mention SLA's, dedicated bandwidth, and actually having someone to yell at on the phone who can do something for you instead of being yet another anonymous schmuck on discounted service that's oversold and runs like crap.
Oh, at previous gigs we tried "business cable" which was laughable. All the downsides of Comcast but somehow even worse uptimes and incompetence.
Personally, I agree that smtp traffic originating from residential blocks should be weighed much heavier than other blocks. Wanna see my mail logs at my spam filter edge? Most Windows computer in the world has been taken over in some fashion by malware. Its worse than you think out there.