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Re:Intel Launches Atom C3000 SoCs: Up to 16 Cores for NAS, S... by derefr on Saturday February 25, 2017 @08:04PM (#13734994)
> How would you feel about hosting a small cloud or Kubernetes cluster on your coffee maker?

The thing I expect these to lead to is for everyone's router to become an implicit home server, and for that to lead to changes in the way we write "cloud" services.

Right now, a lot of background "checking up on things" for services like group chat apps, happens directly on people's phones, because they're (almost) always on and (almost) always connected to the Internet.

Now imagine that it's guaranteed that everyone in the world has an implicit personal (or family) server their phone can communicate with, and can automatically reach over and launch processes on. All the background logic would move to the server. Phone apps (and a lot of computer apps) would become simple thin-clients that talk to your home server.

It'd be like IRC bouncers, but for everything, and for everyone.

Start a multiplayer game? The lobby server launches automatically on your router.

Install a "free VoIP service" app? You've actually just installed an Asterisk server on your router; the app just configures it and acts as a softphone for it.

Want a blog? The button on WordPress.com doesn't start up a LAMP container in their cloud; it starts a LAMP container on your router.

Etc.

Re:Intel Launches Atom C3000 SoCs: Up to 16 Cores for NAS, S... by closeparen on Saturday February 25, 2017 @08:42PM (#13735136)
The extremely asymmetric nature of cable modem internet connections will make this tough when you're not at home: your house will upload responses to you at a crawl.

That, or the "home server" component will be a separate mode / augmentation for what are still primarily cloud-based services.

I'd much rather locate my personal server (or VM) in a real datacenter and behind a better SLA than my flaky Comcast.

Re:Intel Launches Atom C3000 SoCs: Up to 16 Cores for NAS, S... by derefr on Saturday February 25, 2017 @09:55PM (#13735379)
Cable is bad (for logical reasons), but DSL services are alright. My local telco just came out with a synchronous 150Mbit plan at not-unreasonable prices. I could certainly host a few servers with that.

I think you're still right, though: the larger picture these things will slot into is as subsidiaries for what IBM has termed "cloudlets": automatic device-launched containers, operating on ISP commodity-IaaS clouds (i.e. at the "edge" in the same city the user is in, where all the CDNs and caches and mirrors they access already are.)

Cloud services would probably be written with cloudlet service-worker containers in mind, and then the home-server hardware would just be a latency-optimization, "stealing" workloads from your cloudlet to your LAN when all the traffic is just going to be over your LAN (e.g. for a home streaming service like Plex, or a game server at a LAN party) and then moving them back if you try to speak to the cloudlet from outside your LAN.

Cloudlets are the more important part of that vision, but I could see the home-server part of the design coming first, just because so many companies seem interested in putting devices into home networks that could run them (e.g. the Apple TV and its class of products; the Amazon Echo, Google Home, and other "voice boxes"; most "smart home" device hubs.)

Re:Intel Launches Atom C3000 SoCs: Up to 16 Cores for NAS, S... by voltagex_ on Saturday February 25, 2017 @11:00PM (#13735591)
>I could certainly host a few servers with that.

What does the ToS say, though?

Re:Intel Launches Atom C3000 SoCs: Up to 16 Cores for NAS, S... by DaiPlusPlus on Saturday February 25, 2017 @08:17PM (#13735049)
Nah. Home internet connections are still terrible. 2017 now and we still don't have IPv6 on residential connections (I'm on Wave and they said IPv6 deployment is still over a year away).
Re:Intel Launches Atom C3000 SoCs: Up to 16 Cores for NAS, S... by derefr on Saturday February 25, 2017 @08:19PM (#13735058)
Home internet connections in the US are terrible. Such a shift doesn't have to start in the US (though American companies would probably be the ones making the products.)
Re:Intel Launches Atom C3000 SoCs: Up to 16 Cores for NAS, S... by morganvachon on Saturday February 25, 2017 @10:57PM (#13735582)
I think IPV6 in the US is regional. I'm in the Atlanta area and I've been on IPV6 for at least two years with Comcast. This is a residential line, not a business line.

This is the result of checking my connection for IPV6 compatibility:

http://imgur.com/zUXjXWm