I've seen pricing on serious bandwidth -- it's just too expensive. Example: REALLY good pricing on 50mb/s (20mb/s commit) is somewhere around $1600/mo. The 20mb/s commit means your average bandwidth for the month doesn't go over 20mb/s -- they usually drop the highest and lowest couple days or the like to calculate their average. Bump it to, say, 150mb/s with a 50mb/s commit and you're up to $2200/mo. The only other number I remember off the top of my head was for 10gb/s was well, well into six figures per month.

None of that's crazy if you need it, but it's going to hurt if you don't have a really good chunk of start-up capital to keep you going until you've set up whatever hosting/reselling you're hoping falls into place.

Anyway, point being, it ain't gonna work if this music project is having trouble with $500/mo. bandwidth bills.

$0.15/GB storage.
$0.18/GB outbound from CDN (Akamai) -- including regular transfer, ssl, and streaming.

While this sounds steep for me, as a personal use (5TB outbound is $900), I assume you're making money at this. Nonetheless, it's also a massive savings over $0.50/GB. You could keep your existing host for regular web traffic and set up a subdomain, music.yourdomain.com or whatever that's just a CNAME that points to the CDN domain.

Also, I do not work for Rackspace -- I'm just exposed to their products via my work.

I always read "COICA" as "CLOACA." It seems appropriate.

This seems, unfortunately, like it would be asking for indiscriminate violence. If lots of people insult violent extremists, why bother with specific targets? If thousands are providing "justification," it may also sway less extreme people that the West really is filled with people deserving of some punishment (even if they wouldn't pull the trigger or press the button themselves).

I know, it's not like these people need a rational reason, but I'd personally feel pretty guilty if a bomb went off somewhere because of something I participated in.

Karma be damned, just wanted to give kudos to you for being so involved in your girlfriend's illness. If only we could all be so strong.