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The Internet Computer[0] hosts whatever kind of service you can cram in a smart contract form-factor. In exchange for having to deal with things like oracles to
by pie_flavor 4y ago
The Internet Computer[0] hosts whatever kind of service you can cram in a smart contract form-factor. In exchange for having to deal with things like oracles to retrieve information from the outside world, it costs absolute peanuts[1]. I tend to use it whenever I want to PoC a web app because it's usually lower-friction than a VM. Unfortunately there aren't that many things to show as an example that aren't just NFT silliness, but one big one is OpenChat[2], which also shows off the basically zero-friction single-sign-on[3] that can't be tracked across services.
Will it pan out? I have no earthly idea. But it's cool enough to try.
[0]: https://internetcomputer.org https://internetcomputer.org
[1]: https://internetcomputer.org/docs/current/developer-docs/deploy/computation-and-storage-costs https://internetcomputer.org/docs/current/developer-docs/dep...
[2]: https://oc.app https://oc.app
[3]: https://identity.ic0.app https://identity.ic0.app
(unfortunately obligatory: I am not a bot. please do not downvote singularly because of linking to a blockchain service, in response to a question about them.)
- shkkmo 4y agoThose "peanuts" look more expensive that traditional hosting to me. It does help that they blatantly try to lie about their service being "more energy efficient than traditional IT".