So I've been thinking. Many of us geeks have homelabs or some kind of home server. Likely with some spare capacity. At the same time, hardware and VPS hosting costs are rising.
Maybe it's time for some kind of spare capacity distributed hosting? Reliability would be an issue, like my gear is often off at night, many folks have dynamic IP addresses. But those can be solved by distributing out to more folks, or might not be an issue for some workloads ...
Elric
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