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geotus3000 460 points ago +462 / -2

We'll need to decentralize similar to what happened with the pirate bay. They're only going to ramp up their censorship. The nice thing is we'll end up with new and far superior technology.

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polk_high_4_td 182 points ago +182 / -0

How would we go about this as a long term solution? Could as many of us as possible set up our own servers like Bitcoin?

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Dale_Gribble 16 points ago +17 / -1

i think its doable. Im just know sure how its done im not very techy but, i do know that you can put a ton of pc's together and have a server.

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spaceinvaders 5 points ago +5 / -0

All you need is one pc and you’ve got a server. “Tons of pc’s together” is a cluster and you need clusters for redundancy, scalability and to support the workload as your user base increases.

Folks use AWS because they offer elasticity some you don’t have to worry about adding more physical servers to your clusters every time you run out if capacity/become processor/memory/storage constrained. With heavy traffic bandwidth becomes an issue.

This is why so many companies run on public clouds.