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True pay-for-what-you-use pricing sounds ideal, but established cloud providers have massive economies of scale that a new decentralized network may struggle to
by best23rhyme 2y ago
True pay-for-what-you-use pricing sounds ideal, but established cloud providers have massive economies of scale that a new decentralized network may struggle to match long-term. How can lttle.cloud remain financially viable while maintaining competitive pricing?
- laurci 2y agoindeed building a network to host an entire cloud's worth of apps is not easy. however, it would be even harder without the distributed approach. this way, we don't have to buy all the hosts, instead we can "rent" them from people that want to contribute to the network. during the initial phases we will distribute rewards for proof-of-availability (just being online will earn money for you). this way we can start the economy and we can have hosts join the network before we have workloads. after the initial phases, we will still reward for availability, but less. from all the payments we collect, most of it will go straight to the hosts that provided resources, and from what we take as a fee, 1/3 will go back to the availability pool, from which we will distribute to all available nodes.