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>> The big difference: Beaker can host websites. So, for individual user to host a website, he/she need to keep his/her hosting laptop alive all the time?

pfraze 6y ago
You're right, you or some peer needs to keep it online. That could be a service, or using the hyp cli tool, or beaker itself, or etc. There's gotta be one peer somewhere. EDIT: don't talk about up/down votes, my bad
- akavel 6y ago
  I don't know the Hypercore community well enough to be able to say for them, but I know it's similar with IPFS, and for it there are already a few commercial services providing such kind of hosting/replication (a.k.a. "pinning"). During a recent hackathon at my workplace, I led an experimental project based on such services: https://github.com/wpengine/hackathon-catation https://github.com/wpengine/hackathon-catation
  - Blahah 6y ago
    There are several such things for Beaker/dat/hyper* too! https://hashbase.io/ https://hashbase.io/ is the one by the Beaker team.
- mmmeff 6y ago
  I'm particularly excited about the prospects of setting up a peer of my dat archives on my mobile phone. It's an always on, power efficient computing device. Not ideal for speed, but seems like a great fit for a last-ditch-effort layer of redundancy when hosting on hypercore.
- Blahah 6y ago
  Like https://hashbase.io/ https://hashbase.io/, which you can use (very intuitively) from within beaker to add a stable peer. Which you know because you made it all :D
mmcclure 6y ago
There used to be a service/project called Hashbase[1] that would "pin" (aka seed) a site for you. Looks like it's inactive, though, which is a shame since it feels like something along these lines would be pretty necessary for any Beaker sites you might consider remotely real/serious. [1] https://github.com/beakerbrowser/hashbase https://github.com/beakerbrowser/hashbase
- Blahah 6y ago
  It's still there and working: https://hashbase.io/ https://hashbase.io/
  - mmcclure 6y ago
    Huh, last night it was timing out for me. First load was slow today, but came up eventually. Thanks for the heads up!

pfraze 6y ago

You're right, you or some peer needs to keep it online. That could be a service, or using the hyp cli tool, or beaker itself, or etc. There's gotta be one peer somewhere. EDIT: don't talk about up/down votes, my bad

akavel 6y ago
I don't know the Hypercore community well enough to be able to say for them, but I know it's similar with IPFS, and for it there are already a few commercial services providing such kind of hosting/replication (a.k.a. "pinning"). During a recent hackathon at my workplace, I led an experimental project based on such services: https://github.com/wpengine/hackathon-catation https://github.com/wpengine/hackathon-catation
- Blahah 6y ago
  There are several such things for Beaker/dat/hyper* too! https://hashbase.io/ https://hashbase.io/ is the one by the Beaker team.
mmmeff 6y ago
I'm particularly excited about the prospects of setting up a peer of my dat archives on my mobile phone. It's an always on, power efficient computing device. Not ideal for speed, but seems like a great fit for a last-ditch-effort layer of redundancy when hosting on hypercore.
Blahah 6y ago
Like https://hashbase.io/ https://hashbase.io/, which you can use (very intuitively) from within beaker to add a stable peer. Which you know because you made it all :D

mmcclure 6y ago

There used to be a service/project called Hashbase[1] that would "pin" (aka seed) a site for you. Looks like it's inactive, though, which is a shame since it feels like something along these lines would be pretty necessary for any Beaker sites you might consider remotely real/serious. [1] https://github.com/beakerbrowser/hashbase https://github.com/beakerbrowser/hashbase

Blahah 6y ago
It's still there and working: https://hashbase.io/ https://hashbase.io/
- mmcclure 6y ago
  Huh, last night it was timing out for me. First load was slow today, but came up eventually. Thanks for the heads up!