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People routinely run their own servers. A great example is bittorrent where the incentive design forces people to run actual file servers on their computer. Pe
by shriphani 5y ago
People routinely run their own servers. A great example is bittorrent where the incentive design forces people to run actual file servers on their computer.
People will run servers on their computer if it is (i) motivated the right way, (ii) as frictionless as possible.
For the types of applications that web2 is great at (content creation / consumption), it makes no sense to run a server of course but computing is a lot bigger than that.
- manachar 5y ago"Routinely run their own servers" That's doing a lot of work. Sure, it happens, but that vast majority of humans (including programmers) will not be in that category.
- ShamelessC 5y agoThere are more common/accessible setups than just BitTorrent. Remote desktop software, media sharing e.g. Plex media center, doorbell cameras (and many other smart home IoT devices), PS/Xbox remote play, etc.
- dochtman 5y agoI’d argue all of those setups combined would amount to less than 1% of internet users, so I’d hardly call them mainstream.
- ShamelessC 5y agoMainstream != routinely, and yes, I agree.
- kybernetikos 5y agoMost printers and routers are running webservers. Some camera sd cards run servers. My ereader runs a webserver, it works well.
- quickthrower2 5y agoMost bittorrenters leech.