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Google, Amazon or Tarsnap will all host it for you for a small fee. What value is there in decentralized hosting across lots of commodity nodes of your private

• mbrock 9y ago
  The decentralized network is a marketplace where different providers can participate with unified payment and APIs, so it's a way to abstract over the hosts, increasing efficiency and resilience. Whether you will end up with a small number of megahosters or a more p2p like topology seems like a question for the market to decide.
• gwbas1c 9y ago
  Might be useful as a P2P backup? For example, If I want to backup 1GB, I have to donate 3GB to the network. Considering the hardware cost, it's probably obvious why everyone just pays a 3rd party.
  • adrianN 9y ago
    I'm pretty sure that plugging a big USB stick into your router is cheaper than paying some cloud service to host your backups. The problem is that it's a lot more complicated to have distributed backups than just plugging storage into an internet-connected device in your home.
• AgentME 9y ago
  Why should those companies get to have a monopoly on file hosting? I'd prefer to have a single system where I can put my files out there with a bit of money and have them kept by anyone who is able to host them. A system like that could offer more competitive prices, and by using such a system, I'd be encouraging a world where I or people like me could easily get paid for hosting when we find ourselves with extra capacity.