[itake]

Running a server from "home" (or an office) I think is too expensive for most businesses. Paying for battery backups, duplicate internet providers, diy NOC, is just too much, especially for small side projects where the goal is publish blogs or write code, not side-hustle SRE

[mystifyingpoi]

What if I told you, that you don't need battery backups, that one ISP is enough, that you don't need 24/7 network team to plug a cable from your tower server to a router, in order to host a mid-size SAAS from the office tower server?

Get real guys.

[reaperducer]

Get real guys.

I had a PHB who didn't like that our web site went offline for 30 seconds each week.

I explained to her that the alternative would require $200,000 and six new employees.

She hasn't brought it up since.

Very few web sites are "mission critical." Even Facebook could go offline for a few seconds a week and nobody would care or notice.

[itake]

It’s not for me, but my paying customers. I guess I could ask them if they are ok if the service goes down when Florida has a hurricane

[Canada]

I'm imagining a future where the software is local first and does a lot of operations peer to peer rather than trying to host large scale centralized web apps that dominate today.

We really don't need huge data centers hosting our notes and discussion forms and spreadsheets in order to make these things collaborative.

It would be A LOT easier to make that work if the internet was end to end by default again.