Three commonly used ISPs are BBN Planet, UUnet, and PSInet. Also included is info on Cape Internet, a local ISP with office in Osterville.

ISPs use different charging models which are based on either:

• Monthly traffic
• Storage fee for Web-server space
• Bandwidth (speed)
• Combinations of all three

ISP's differ also in the kind of support service they offer for their clients. Talk to companies that use one of the listed ISPs for hosting services to find out, if they offer good and quick support when needed.

For our demo purposes, we investigated prices for a medium site, taking up 10-15 MB storage space.

BBN Planet:

Contact:
BBN Planet Sales
800-472-4565
150 CambridgePark Drive
Cambridge, MA 01240
Questions to: Lawrence Thompson, Service Line Manager

BBN not consider the actual storage space, but only monthly traffic. Our test site would fall into category "Silver Service" which allows 300 Mb to 1 Gb monthly data transfer, ranging from $ 300 - $ 600/month.

3 Pricing categories:

1) BBN Gold:

Options	Connectivity	Cost	Additional cost
Web Advantage Gold standard includes 1.0 gigabyte monthly data transfer	Standard	Starting at $1,595/month	$0.18/megabyte over 1.0 gigabyte
Web Advantage Gold high volume includes 12 gigabyte monthly data transfer	High Volume	Starting at $2,495/month	$0.14/megabyte over 12 gigabyte
Web Advantage Gold high performance includes 21 gigabyte monthly data transfer	High Performance with dedicated 10 megabit per second	Starting at $4,995/month	$ 0.14/Mb over 21 >gigabyte

Notes:

• 1. Set-up fee for all Web Advantage Gold service levels is $1,500 per machine.
• 2. Set-up for Netscape Commerce Server is $1500 one-time charge plus $150/mo
• 3. Set-up fee for RealAudio V2.0 is $500 plus a RealAudio license charge
• 4. All Web Advantage Gold service levels include:
  • a. 32 Mb ram
  • b. 2 Gb disk
• 5. Additional ram and disk space is available upon request.
• 6. Additional IP addresses, DNS registrations, and DNS database entries >are available at optional extra cost.

2) BBN Silver :

Web Advantage Silver Web hosting service is ideal for small to medium-size businesses or departments of large companies. It lets you cost-effectively and reliably distribute information by locating your Web site on BBN Planet's high performance server. So you don't have to install, operate, or maintain the extensive computing and networking resources required for a Web presence.

Option	Connectivity	Cost	Additional cost
Web Advantage Silver includes 300 megabyte monthly	Standard	Starting at $295/month data transfer	$0.18/megabyte over 2.1 megabyte/month
Web Advantage Silver connectivity includes 2.1 gigabyte monthly data transfer	High Volume	Starting at $595/month	$0.18/megabyte over gigabyte/month

Notes: 1. Set-up fee for all Web Advantage Silver service levels is $495 per purchase.

3) BBN Bronze:

Web Advantage Bronze backbone-link access high performance service allows you to cost-effectively deliver massive amounts of data to the World Wide Web using your own hardware and software. Ideal for companies comfortable running their own servers.

Option	Connectivity	Cost
Web Advantage Bronze 10M/24 includes 10 megabit per second network connection shared among 24 servers	10M/24	$1,000/month
Web Advantage Bronze 10M/12 includes 10 megabit per second network connection shared among 12 servers	10M/12	$1,700/month
Web Advantage Bronze 10M/1 includes dedicated 10Mbs network connection	10M/1	$5,000/month
Additional 5 vertical inches of rack space for oversized systems	No connectivity	$1,000 monthly fee

Notes:

• 1. Set-up fee for all Web Advantage Bronze service levels is $5,000 per machine.
• 2. Additional 5 vertical inches of rack space is $1,000 to install and $100 per month.
• 3. Access fee for the Web farm is $150 per hour
• 4. Equipment supplied under Web Advantage Bronze must be approved by BBN operations and engineering, and must match one of the following unless additional rack space is purchased:

• 16.4"W x 3.07"H x 16.1"D (Sun Netra, SPARCserver or SPARCstation 5 or 20, chassis only
• 16.0'W x 3.0"H x14"D (SGI Challenge/S)
• 15.25"W x 3.75"H x22"D
• If the mounting feed are no more than 16.2"W, a computer up to 17.5"W x 2.875"H x 22"D (wider, but shorter than above)

UUnet - Web Hosting Services:

Phone: 1-800-488-6383

UUNET's distinguishes hosting services according to connection speed, either T-1 or 10 Mb connection; does not consider actual storage space but only monthly traffic. Our test site with T1 connection would fall into monthly costs of $ 300 - $ 400/month.

Standard (server connected via T-1 link)

• One-time start-up fee: $400;
• Monthly charge (1st mo.): $300
• Monthly charge, after first month:

MB of data retrieved (per month)	Monthly cost	Approximate maximum number of inquiries*
0-250	$300	2,000
251-500	$400	4,000
501-1000	$500	8,000
1001-1500	$600	12,000
1501-2500	$750	20,000

Premium (server connected via 10 Mbps link):

• One-time start-up fee: $850;
• Monthly charge (1st mo.): $900
• Monthly charge, after first month.

MB of data retrieved (per month)	Monthly cost	Approximate maximum number of inquiries*
0-2,500	$900	20,000
2,501-5,000	$1,200	40,000
5,001-10,000	$1,800	80,000
10,001-15,000	$2,300	125,000
15,001-20,000	$2,800	150,000
20,001-30,000	$3,600	250,000
30,001-40,000	$4,400	300,000
40,001 and up	$5,400	500,000 and up

*Approximate maximum number of inquiries per day based on a typical mix of text and graphical information on the server. Pages with extensive graphic or multimedia content will consume more bandwidth per inquiry.

PSInet - Web Hosting:

Phone: 1.800.827.7482 Only charge disc space and not for hits (= traffic). For T1: only available for over 10 Mb storage: customers pay storage space (= $ 120/month for 12 and 14 Mb)) + $ 500 per month for T1 connection: For our sample site with 10-15 Mb that means, $ 620,- per month.

PSIWeb Pricing

Unlike other Web hosting services, PSIWeb does not charge based on the number of "hits." Instead, we structure our pricing on the amount of disk space that your site occupies on the PSIWeb servers. And to help you control costs, you can request an on-line disk space report at any time, to assess your site and calculate the price for your current content.

• Setup Fee: $250.00
• Minimum Monthly Fee: $95.00* (0-5 MB)*with 12 month agreement.
• 3 month contract: $100 per month.
• Additional Disk Space:
  • $35 / MB for the next 5-25 MB
  • $10 / MB for the next 25-75 MB
  • $5 / MB for the next 75 MB+ Bandwidth
  • T-1 - disk space only 10 MB - disk space + $500
  • T-3 - disk space + $3000

Cape Internet:

Phone: 508-420-4700

Offers Web-Hosting services as "Commerical Virtual Domain".

Pricing:

• Activation fee: $ 100
• Monthly fee: $ 300 for 20 Mb space (storage space, no mention of how much traffic that buys).
• $ 100 Internic Registration (good for 2 years)
• Up to 1Gb bandwidth
• Commercial use (advertising, reselling of space)
• Resellers agreement
• Address: http://www.yourname/com

Further information on new web technologies:

Intel Internet Phone: http://www.intel.com/iaweb/cpc/
Microsoft Internet Phone: http://www.microsoft.com/netmeeting/

Additional info about CU-See Me - videoconferencing software is accessible at Cornell University, at http://cu-seeme.cornell.edu/#GET.