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Ask HN: How to Make Money from Servers?

1 points by marwan-nwh 5 years ago · 4 comments · 1 min read


Actually, why there is no startup build around that. It let people rent their servers. Think of AirBnB for servers. Is there something like that?

arthurcolle 5 years ago

I don't know if I'd trust most applications just randomly running on my physical machines. Maybe if there was some kind of sandboxing environment. You could probably build something like with with k8s and docker

mindhash 5 years ago

Vast.ai does to an extent. It works for academics. Enterprises are risk averse, and reliability sucks when too many people and systems are involved.

akerl_ 5 years ago

It feels like you’re describing “the entire cloud industry”. AWS, Azure, Google, DigitalOcean, Linode, etc are all doing pretty much exactly this.

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