My First Impressions of Web3
&gt; We’d all have our own web server with our own web site, our own mail server for our own email, our own finger sever for our own status messages, our own chargen server for our own character generation. However – and I don’t think this can be emphasized enough – that is not what people want. People do not want to run their own servers.<p>I must be stuck in the past.<p>It&#x27;s true. No one wants to run an arcane, buggy, insecure, wonky POS that needs constant patching. This is really a failure of software and shoving all that up a level into the cloud is not fixing anything. At least with your own hardware you can nuke it and start over from scratch. With your own hardware (and disks), you at least know where your data resides.<p>We live in a time where you can get a 4 TB NAS for essentially nothing. You can drop a 8 core, 32GB RAM server on top of that for less than $1k. I don&#x27;t know what other people&#x27;s scaling needs are--who knows, maybe they need to serve 100 PB?--but it&#x27;s a mind blowing amount of computation. Most people can probably serve their silly websites off that. If you can&#x27;t handle your own email load on a server like that, I honestly have no idea what you&#x27;re up to.<p>I kind of <i>do</i> want to run my own ones of those things...but I know (with today&#x27;s software) I&#x27;d hate it. Because even after all these years, it kind of terrifies me, the metric shitton of stuff I have had no clue how to do, and I know is way over complicated...because <i>everything</i> is way overcomplicated.