3 months ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
One guy, with one single centralized server. Not a bad one from what I've heard, but clearly not powerful enough to withstand popularity and demand plus all the (((ddos attacks))).
I appreciate the effort, but I think the future is in decentralized hosting like IPFS, torrents or various blockchain projects. More people need to chip in with computation, storage and bandwidth to keep the cost down and allow the network to scale up efficiently. It's just not possible with traditional centralized hosting.
Unfortunately, such distributed systems can be poisoned effortlessly with illegal content to bird-dog the zogbots onto them. They can only be used within trusted circles, or with real identification so jews can't post child pornography.
It's a unintended drawback, because you don't want people behind the platform who (((they))) can buy, kill or corrupt. Hybrid solutions may be the answer, the network itself should only generate long hashes and provide no built in search functionality. Keep all of that on a layer above.
That way, we can have thousands of file hosting sites, all with their own rules, but they all use the same back-end for file storage which is distributed and un-censorable. And the cost would go down by a lot too as it's a lot easier for a web server to serve a static file vs a dynamic file.
It'll be like the internet itself, which is also uncensored and anyone can start their own website were they host whatever they want.