Here’s an AWS employee basically saying nobody can host a social media service without AWS or the like, and if you look for alternatives you have wrongspeak on your platform and shouldn’t find a host. Thoughts? https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/parlers-new-serverless-architecture/
He also uses "platform for nazis" and "need to scale to millions of users" in reference to the same hypothetical service looking for a home. Seems like a pessimistic view of the world.
@alan8325 The internet is very dependent on what are essentially edge caches these days, and while those are physically distributed around the world, they're administratively/economically highly centralized companies. That's not quite the point he's making. But it's the biggest issue.
It's certainly doable to host yourself. But it won't be as cheap/efficient as using a big cloud provider unless you're operating at a huge scale. Note how Twitter is switching to AWS...
@pete Yeah, I was mentioning some ideas for decentralizing CDNs yesterday. i.e. if you have a small datacenter maybe you can be incentivized to use it as a local mini CDN. https://bitcoinhackers.org/@alan8325/105550349476271971
@alan8325 The best model would probably be for there to exist a standardized encrypted blob protocol, that ISPs could run caches for at the edge. There's some privacy concerns vs self-hosting, as they could learn what content their users are requesting. But that's still better than the status quo of centralized CDNs learning everything. And VPN services could easily offer that caching too.
The internet used to work this way in some places actually, pre-https.
