| You can use gaia hubs, which are user owned stores, to host your data wherever you like. Gaia focuses on user owned data, and leaves the work of network consensus and replication to the identity associated with your gaia hub: https://docs.blockstack.org/storage/overview.html where the identity is defined here: https://docs.blockstack.org/core/naming/introduction.html We have an Amazon EC2 AMI, and are working on others, but the idea is you could bootstrap the docker-compose on any VM you like, or a rasberry pi if you want even: https://github.com/blockstack/gaia/blob/master/hub/README.md There are IPFS driver requests and now requests for drivers to support privatestorage by Least Authority as well, if you also want to replicate your data temporarily across some nodal network. While gaia fundamentally does not require using the comprehensive Blockstack API, we are working on tutorials to abstract the use of only gaia without Blockstack. They are designed to be functional independent of each other, in the same way people can use Blockstack authentication without gaia, the reverse can be true: https://docs.blockstack.org/storage/overview.html Currently, I want it to be even easier than just bootstrapping a docker-compose in gaia for users to host on their own machine, or rasberry pi or what have you. We are working on that as well as cloud hosted solutions. I would like for people to be able to launch a vm with a preinstalled image locally on their own machine, not just google cloud, amazon, Digital Ocean etc. The groundwork for a secure and minimal VM is mostly in place. We need to set up more instructions for this but feel free to launch the docker-compose and give it a whirl in your environment of choice if you don't want any of the cloud AMI's we currently offer. |