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Be interesting to see if we could start charging website owners fees for them using our processing power to render their site. Something needs to be done to en
by geggam 7y ago
Be interesting to see if we could start charging website owners fees for them using our processing power to render their site.
Something needs to be done to encourage some efficiencies given the fact it takes more resources to surf the internet and read about running a k8s cluster than it does to actually run the cluster
- p2t2p 7y agoYou're free not to use any website...
- geggam 7y agoArguably if you are publishing content on the net you are giving it away. There are mechanisms to charge for it.
- hombre_fatal 7y ago> There are mechanisms to charge for it. Only above a certain price point. Our financial system nor our consumer culture support micropayments yet. This effectively limits the web properties that can charge users to a small fraction, so unfortunately "just charge money" isn't the widely-available solution I wish it was yet. Hell, it's more viable to charge users for your mobile client than the backing service. It's kind of the closest we have to micropayments in a way.
- geggam 7y agoThen you dont have a sustainable business model. Why should I subsidize your failed model ?
- buzzerbetrayed 7y agoYet you somehow think charging content providers for using your computer when they give you free content isn’t a failed business model?
- geggam 7y agoIf someone gave you a set of unassembled Ikea stuff and you didn't know if you could use it until you assembled it. Who should pay for the assembly of the stuff ? Would you put it together for free just to decide ? Who pays for the used resources ?
- SquareWheel 7y agoWould you pay their fee for generating the page on the server?
- geggam 7y agoI do Netflix, Prime Video etc etc
- SquareWheel 7y agoThat's paying for content, but isn't really what we're talking about. Hacker News is a better example. It's generated entirely server-side. Why not pay YCombinator a few cents for every page load?
- geggam 7y agoIf HN had content worth paying for they could charge for it.
- dgb23 7y agoThere are some interesting trade-offs in this. There is more JS being processed, but that JS is smartly split up, bundled and takes care of loading just the content you need on subsequent browsing. So the gains are: - less data sent over the wire overall - faster page loads overall initially and especially on subsequent loads. - on subsequent loads only parts of the DOM are being rendered, not the whole thing so in some cases it might save you processing power - no round trips to a DB and template engine, this is mostly a pro for the provider of the content - some sites with this pattern enable you to download the whole thing as a PWA, so you can look at it offline with a single download.