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Assuming they allow server use-cases without booting you off, I could see it being a boon for indie web services. Even fairly old (5-10 years) computers are alr
by ndriscoll 2y ago
Assuming they allow server use-cases without booting you off, I could see it being a boon for indie web services. Even fairly old (5-10 years) computers are already mind-bogglingly powerful (I've been playing with a toy myspace clone that can do ~15k profile pages rendered per second including db queries on an 8 year old computer with an i5. Throw caching nginx in front and it saturates my 1 Gbit adapter so I'm not sure what it can do), so if you had uncapped data transfer, you could e.g. try to start up a reddit competitor out of your home (legal risks of user-submitted content aside), and at least on the infrastructure side, could probably scale to 1-10M users on 10 Gbit/s. At least in the US, uplink capacity and legal risks seem like the biggest blockers for techies to be able to bootstrap services from home at more-or-less $0 operational cost and few thousand upfront cost.