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Unironically a good thing. There is currently a fair amount of centralization based on hosting site[1]. AWS is first at 48%, Hetzner second at 14%. These percen

Unironically a good thing. There is currently a fair amount of centralization based on hosting site[1]. AWS is first at 48%, Hetzner second at 14%. These percentages are among cloud nodes, which account for 62%. If taken as percentage of total Eth nodes, they would be lower[2]. People are encouraged to host at home, or at least in some small hosting provider. There was a hashtag going on a few days ago, #stakefromhome[3], with people showing their setups. [1] https://ethernodes.org/networkType/Hosting https://ethernodes.org/networkType/Hosting [2] https://ethernodes.org/network-types https://ethernodes.org/network-types [3] https://twitter.com/hashtag/stakefromhome https://twitter.com/hashtag/stakefromhome Edit: Clarified hosted vs residential

mckirk 4y ago
Not sure why that's a good thing; I'd expect the 48% to rise in the wake of this, and that's certainly not what you'd want.
- redox99 4y ago
  > I'd expect the 48% to rise in the wake of this Why do you expect that? People that use Hetzner usually pick it because it's very cheap. I don't see many moving to AWS, which is very expensive. They'll probably move to OVH, maybe Digital Ocean or Linode or other.