HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web (2015)
I need to comment because people are missing the point... there&#x27;s <i>nothing</i> in this text that says the web won&#x27;t need servers.<p>Imagine that you and some friends want to launch a small local business and need to host a website.  Instead of paying to host it &quot;up in the cloud&quot;, why not plug a few raspberry pi&#x27;s into the walls at each of your houses?  Between that and also seeding it from your laptops, the site should have decent coverage.  Maybe you could also offer some discounts for loyal customers who choose to seed it.  This site will be redundantly hosted in the location where it&#x27;s most likely to be accessed.<p>If you&#x27;re doing something more permanent, then you will want to make sure you have more stable hosts, and not just some peoples cell phones.  Just like you do now.  It&#x27;s the same thing as now.  If you want to host something, make sure there is at least one computer that is serving it on a decent internet connection.<p>The difference is that with distributed web technologies, there is a smooth continuum for scaling.  You don&#x27;t even need to assume there is an ISP to seed!  All you need is LANs.  But if you want to do big things, you can harness the power of thousands of peers all streaming something that they&#x27;re into.<p>I use syncthing and resilio sync all the time, and it works great with just 3 devices.