Anyone ever thought of creating a drop in "cloud" machine that could host self hosted services with minimal technical knowhow? The biggest technical achievement that would make this intriguing for me would be family distributed backups. If I could buy like 3 or 4 of these and have it magically do multi site clustering and backups and have some sort of app store it might solve most of the issues.
The provider of such a machine could also provide technical assistance in the form of:
- DNS / ___domain registration
- Host OS Updates
- Encrypted cloud backups
- Specialized router/firewalls to make it even easier to expose on the internet safely
- Accessories like media archival equipment
- Hardware upgrade kits
I know it's been a couple of days since you posted (I just saw this now), but we (Oxide) regularly get asked when we're gonna make a consumer-oriented product. It's not just you. Though I think most requests are more like "I want a workstation" rather than thinking about it a bit more deeply, as you are. I'm going to ruminate on this :)
In our case it's not something we're pursuing near-term because well, part of the whole thesis is based on scale, so doing what we're doing but only for that doesn't make sense right now and we need to focus on the product we do have rather than developing additional products.
The provider of such a machine could also provide technical assistance in the form of: - DNS / ___domain registration - Host OS Updates - Encrypted cloud backups - Specialized router/firewalls to make it even easier to expose on the internet safely - Accessories like media archival equipment - Hardware upgrade kits
I mean really just https://oxide.computer/ but for consumers.