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In the era of 5G, massive storage and incredibly powerful CPUs, we really should be exploring the home server space, as it has scope for huge improvements in te

In the era of 5G, massive storage and incredibly powerful CPUs, we really should be exploring the home server space, as it has scope for huge improvements in terms of enabling non-technical people to own their data and operate 'servers'. This would actually realise the dream of a distributed network of full-fledged peers and also put tremendous power in the hands of ordinary people.

ilaksh 6y ago
5G and IPv6 (which does not require NAT). I think another major area of research for many years has been content-oriented networking. I see many ideas addressing the same problems from different angles. To me it's a question of which ones are going to become popular and when. I mean things like IPFS are already popular to a limited extent. There are home server startups or products out there. Most are just not super popular yet.
input_sh 6y ago
You're assuming that ISPs are okay with you hosting a public service using their infrastructure, which they're historically very much opposed to (in order to get you to pay for a more expensive "business" account).
- m0xte 6y ago
  Mine doesn’t give a crap if my outbound is 200 gig a month uploading stuff to onedrive or iCloud. Why should it have that opinion on anything else? I’m paying for a pipe. The only control metric they have is asymmetry and that’s a technology tradeoff in my case (ADSL)
  - input_sh 6y ago
    Oh I completely agree with you that they shouldn't care, but the odds are big that you'll find out that they do in your Terms of Service.
- EGreg 6y ago
  Dude screw ISPs. Mesh networking will power the last mile soon.
- kanox 6y ago
  I never had issues running public http servers on residential isp connections. It's fine unless you get massive traffic.
rimliu 6y ago
I am not sure non-technical people have any desire to "operate 'servers'". Not sure about their desire to own data, either…
- kanox 6y ago
  Having other people operate servers for you is very convenient, even for very technical people. For example you could host your own mail server for personal email but almost nobody does that. It's a lot of work and you can get better server for free.

ilaksh 6y ago

5G and IPv6 (which does not require NAT). I think another major area of research for many years has been content-oriented networking. I see many ideas addressing the same problems from different angles. To me it's a question of which ones are going to become popular and when. I mean things like IPFS are already popular to a limited extent. There are home server startups or products out there. Most are just not super popular yet.

input_sh 6y ago

You're assuming that ISPs are okay with you hosting a public service using their infrastructure, which they're historically very much opposed to (in order to get you to pay for a more expensive "business" account).

m0xte 6y ago
Mine doesn’t give a crap if my outbound is 200 gig a month uploading stuff to onedrive or iCloud. Why should it have that opinion on anything else? I’m paying for a pipe. The only control metric they have is asymmetry and that’s a technology tradeoff in my case (ADSL)
- input_sh 6y ago
  Oh I completely agree with you that they shouldn't care, but the odds are big that you'll find out that they do in your Terms of Service.
EGreg 6y ago
Dude screw ISPs. Mesh networking will power the last mile soon.
kanox 6y ago
I never had issues running public http servers on residential isp connections. It's fine unless you get massive traffic.

rimliu 6y ago

I am not sure non-technical people have any desire to "operate 'servers'". Not sure about their desire to own data, either…

kanox 6y ago
Having other people operate servers for you is very convenient, even for very technical people. For example you could host your own mail server for personal email but almost nobody does that. It's a lot of work and you can get better server for free.