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I think I disagree… desktops are pretty inexpensive in the grand scheme of things. I mean most of us could host our stuff on a raspberry pi or something like th

I think I disagree… desktops are pretty inexpensive in the grand scheme of things. I mean most of us could host our stuff on a raspberry pi or something like that. It isn’t like we’d individually need to handle a ton of traffic. Rather I think the problem is that most server (software) was pretty poorly written, to the point where it requires professional administration and maintainence. Although, this did create a lot of IT jobs. I guess there isn’t anyone, really incentivized to architect things better.

nine_k 2y ago
You could run your blog off your machine at home, much like you (hopefully) run your home automation from a machine at home, not a cloud instance. Serving your collection of videos from home is a bit ore taxing, should anything become popular. And if you produce popular videos, you want to handle subscriptions and comments, accept payments, fend off spam, and weather the occasional DoS attack. Things quickly snowball into a full-time sysop job. This is to say nothing of businesses that need hundreds of boxes. Putting them all in the office building means you have really hard time moving, e.g. because you grow and need more space, even as we ignore the question of redundant power and internet links in the building. Datacenters most honestly deserve their place. They make life easier for many people, for many reasons. They are not the only thing that should exist, but very certainly they are not a mistake or aberration.
latentsea 2y ago
People don't do this for reliability reasons. All you need is a static IP, a machine at home and a internet connection. It's fine if you don't care about uptime, but people aren't running businesses that way for a reason.