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The hosting cost problem becomes acceptable if the pub server is fast enough and hosting is cheap enough. Look at IRC.
by fenwick67 8y ago
The hosting cost problem becomes acceptable if the pub server is fast enough and hosting is cheap enough. Look at IRC.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoThe cost would be zero if residential ISPs issued static ipv6 and allowed servers.
- fenwick67 8y agoYeah, the more I look at P2P applications the more I realize our infrastructure is not set up to support them without some serious work on the application side.
- dredmorbius 8y agoThe hosting cost would be negligible. The policing costs less so. Hygiene matters.
- heavenlyblue 8y agoI don’t think static IPs are as relevant today. What I do for my home PC (that’s for ipv4, but it doesn’t matter) is I map my current external IP in Google Cloud DNS every 15 minutes with a TTL of 0. Of course I only make the change if needed, so I am easily below the paid threshold, too. In a properly p2p system the idea of certain servers being offline for short amounts of time is considered a norm. So should be OK either way.
- Nextgrid 8y agoThe “allowing servers” part is a non issue. By the time it becomes an issue, you’d already have more issues like the need of more bandwidth which would make you switch providers anyway.