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Charging money isn't a great solution as it's too complicated and fee-ridden to be of value to low income users. P2P CDNs are one solution, but they aren't per
by Sephr 9y ago
Charging money isn't a great solution as it's too complicated and fee-ridden to be of value to low income users.
P2P CDNs are one solution, but they aren't perfect either. They may be a lot easier to adopt than monetary roadblocks though.
In the future, a combination of mandatory P2P CDN participation and a monetary P2P CDN opt-out fee may be the best compromise. No ads, and everyone is actually helping host the website (be it through their own personal bandwidth and storage or through monetary means).
- tabeth 9y agoI don't see how charging money is any more complicated than serving ads. Couldn't you trivially implement this with a NEED_TIP header and some javascript on the website that makes sure the user has paid (there are plenty of ways to implement that).
- JediWing 9y agoHttp status code 402 - payment required
- kbenson 9y agoFor some types of site, hosting is a big portion of the cost. For others, content production is. For example, I doubt hosting fees are the real cost for most news organizations. It's likely a huge percentage of the cost for something like imgur.