[uxhacker]

I think some justify it as SpaceX plans to offer hosting in space, and then use Starlink to distribute it.

[BLKNSLVR]

That's what the IPO salesman and pamphlet said anyway.

[mmcwilliams]

Can you provide a good example of something that is currently hosted in space and distributed via satellite?

[elcritch]

GPS..

[mmcwilliams]

You believe that GPS is hosted on servers in space?

[elcritch]

Technically, yes. Obviously stretches the normal definition of a server, but it is a computer controlled system "serving" a mostly digital signal.

https://www.baesystems.com/en-us/article/gps-iii-satellite-l...

[mmcwilliams]

What people are describing here is the colloquial definition of "server", being compute hosted in space. Not a broadcast signal that is interpreted on Earth.