I see your point. Not sure companies would go this way because it requires either a more tech savvy customer or a highly commoditized server appliance in every

I see your point. Not sure companies would go this way because it requires either a more tech savvy customer or a highly commoditized server appliance in every home and business. If internet connectivity companies delivered micro-servers to every customer instead of a dumb DSL modem/router things could be very different. Every home/business could have their own internal and externally exposed (if desired) server. That could be cool in a million different ways.