My perspective is (and has been) that we are having to have a much larger fixed cost due to the heavy users requirements and thus that usage has an impact, (maybe slight), on the smallest users...yes, we need more disk and bandwidth to handle growth, but a heavy new user may take as much resources as 5 or 10 more typical users, so...not sure how best to handle the issue...other than maybe have some surcharge for members who use some multiples (10x or more?) of the "normal" member... 

-- Adam Megacz <megacz@hcoop.net> wrote:
Michael Potter <mpotter@hcoop.net> writes:
> It wouldn't make sense to add unnecessary accounting to the billing
> process, but it seems unfair to me that members who use few resources
> will pay the same as those who use a lot. The message there seems to
> be I get more for my money if I take up more disk space and
> bandwidth.

I think the only "consumable resources" here are disk space and
per-byte bandwidth (ie above the base peering fee).  Both of these are
a very small fraction of hcoop's total costs, which seem to be mostly
fixed costs.