Serious threat to the web in Italy

Re:Serious threat to the web in Italy by loup-vaillant on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @12:32PM (#1148518)

You sound like we need YouTube to publish videos or that we need Blogger to publish a blog. We don't. Well we do, but only because we have asymmetric bandwidth, and no low-power, easy[1] to set up home server. The second we have that is the second these platforms become obsolete. For many reasons, I would very much like that.

About aggregation sites like Hacker News, you do have a strong point, though.

[1] I mean as easy as Facebook, Blogger, YouTube, Twitter… Any harder and it won't work.

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Re:Serious threat to the web in Italy by davidw on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @02:38PM (#1148865)

With freedom of expression, and your "we don't. Well we do", it's really best to err on the side of too much freedom, even if we get stupid youtube videos and comments along with it.

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Re:Serious threat to the web in Italy by mbreese on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @02:02PM (#1148754)

We don't. Well we do

I agree... :) it would be nice for all of us to be able to "publish" ourselves... but for the most part, even if we did have better low-power home servers and enough bandwidth to serve the content, most people won't be able / willing to set it up. So, I think in general, the mass-public will be stuck with the Bloggers and YouTubes of the world.

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Re:Serious threat to the web in Italy by loup-vaillant on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @05:01PM (#1149309)

Can't you imagine a home server which is already set up?

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Re:Serious threat to the web in Italy by jonknee on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @02:36PM (#1148860)

You may not need Blogger or YouTube to publish on the internet, but the masses do.

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Re:Serious threat to the web in Italy by loup-vaillant on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @05:05PM (#1149323)

I know they do. My point is they shouldn't. Give them an already set up server, and they won't.

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Re:Serious threat to the web in Italy by gridspy on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @08:08PM (#1149729)

You might be able to distribute the publishing of content into the house, but can you distribute the failsafe hardware? Redundant connections? UPS?

When you buy hosting online, you buy more than space on a hard disk.

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Re:Serious threat to the web in Italy by loup-vaillant on Thursday February 25, 2010 @05:39AM (#1150410)

We need things like distributed, encrypted backups for your data, and backup MX to receive your mail. These already exist. What's left to do is the automation of the set up.

I don't think most people really need high availability, so UPS and redundant connections sound like overkill. For fail-safe hardware, we just need something "unplug proof". A Beagle Board (with a few GB of Flash and a small battery) is more than enough.

I am aware that such a solution will be a little less convenient than storing everything "in the cloud", no matter how easy it can be. But the cloud has its downsides as well: you hardly have any privacy in the cloud, and they can shut everyone down, for any reason.

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