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Let's say I want to setup some blog, portfolio or fun experimental site but my internet connection is not perfect. I'm not alone on this kind of problems: we sh

by arkh 2y ago

Let's say I want to setup some blog, portfolio or fun experimental site but my internet connection is not perfect. I'm not alone on this kind of problems: we should be able to pool our resources and have those websites be delivered by whoever has a working connection to the computer requiring access. I think it could be done with k8s but maybe not. And websites are the easy model as they don't require a permanent connection between "server" and client, with things like IRC it should start being fun.

kkfx 2y ago
You contact $WeHostWebsites a company that do what the name imply, they have no datacenter, instead they are 10 people offering the service, some ready-made static website generators with a portfolio of themes, option for ecommerce etc, hosting their infra in their own homes. You pay them few $currency per year and you have your hosted website. At a certain point they need more iron but not much more people the owners buy a shed aside his/her own home and add the need iron, another own do the same... A day their business goes bad, they still own the iron, they can sell if as a service for others who need computing power for a short period of time or they can reinvent themselves in something else because they still have something tangible behind them, not a rent of someone else resources. That's the model.