Ephemeral P2P site hosting has potential, though I disagree with the route Project Maelstrom is taking. Another approach would be to try an in-browser implement

Ephemeral P2P site hosting has potential, though I disagree with the route Project Maelstrom is taking. Another approach would be to try an in-browser implementation, using: * WebRTC for the P2P "glue" (i.e. webtorrent[0]/instant.io[1]) * Google Caja[2] for the sandbox * Custom protocol handlers[3] for URLs/URIs - <a href='eph://[DHT hash]'> - Handler unavailable? https://eph.io#[DHT hash] You basically just package everything (images, JS, HTML) into a single DHT resource, and share the eph:// URI. For long-term hosting, setup a webtorrent-compatible seedbox somewhere in Europe. I've only gotten as far as static P2P site hosting, but if I were to speculate: With a distributed database and a rethink on isomorphic JS, you could build fully-auditable "aether-hosted apps". Like cloud hosting, but more buzzwordy! It'll become even more powerful (but less auditable) if homomorphic encryption ever becomes a thing. For such a DB, perhaps a P2P document store similar to CouchDB/PouchDB, with aspects of context-aware networking. The user auth table could include public keys for authorized users, and handle modifications through a signed changelog. You could probably get pretty far through a signature chain (users delegating users), though at some point it'd be so collision-prone that a superuser would need to regenerate the database and re-sign the contents. I'm not really a DB guy, though; there are obvious situations where such an approach is unsuitable, plus there might be a simpler DHT-like way to do it. Short URL's could be handled using a proof-of-work-based DDNS system (Web Crypto API for PoW, WebRTC for P2P). A more simplistic approach to URI->URL is simply to convert into human-readable strings[4]. --- [0]: https://github.com/feross/webtorrent https://github.com/feross/webtorrent [1]: https://github.com/feross/instant.io https://github.com/feross/instant.io [2]: https://developers.google.com/caja/ https://developers.google.com/caja/ [3]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web-based_protocol_handlers https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web-based_protocol_han... [4]: https://neftaly.github.io/radixWord/ https://neftaly.github.io/radixWord/