Let's say you have a business that is 100% gonna get canceled from lots of internet infrastructure services because reasons. Let's say you decided "Screw it. I'm gonna build all my own infrastructure and services from the ground up and deliver all my digital content to millions, including broadband video, apps, gaming, devices, etc."

A) Is that even remotely possible?
B) If money were no object and time were not of the essence, how would you do it?
C) How could that even scale at all if thousands of other businesses did the exact same thing?

Are you Parler? Is this a Parler?

Sure, it's possible. If it wasn't, then AWS wouldn't have managed to do it.

We really are talking money no object though. You'd want multiple redundant datacentres across the globe with stupidly fast switchgear, stupid numbers of high powered compute nodes, multiple high capacity, high speed SANs, stupidly fast uplinks on the whole lot, a heck of redundancy, and a huge, talented, expensive, global 24/7 workforce to manage it all and keep up on the maintenance. And that's before you get into what you need to run on top of it all, or other things like site security, securing reliable power, data security, etc...

You don't spin that up instantly either. Expect to wait a few months at a *minimum* for this sort of gear to arrive.

Running your own stuff is perfectly feasible if you just want a few servers in a single location pushing a bit of content out. High bandwidth, distributed on a global scale to millions though - that's a different ball game entirely.

@AlmondSauce The "need" is going to be billions, but millions to start. Yeah, its a big undertaking.

@AlmondSauce this, when they say "build your own" I agree, if they were consistent and if they would let you "create your own" without organizing to sweep the rug from under you.

It is sad that AWS can shut my platform down if someone in it posts something Amazon doesn't like, it is scary to know my DNS can do the same, the payment processor I use, the dev community I am part of, like what the fuck. The internet used to be a place to give people power not to monopolice it on a couple of hands and ideologies.

LOL. Matze begs for help.

@broseph Ha! No. I’m debating the topic with a friend.

@AlmondSauce Not to mention app distribution to devices people have already (vs selling them new devices) and laying one’s own internet infrastructure like fiber optic cables, undersea cables, and satellites. Also, to do DNS, your own ICANN situation.

@JKyll agree. also, I don’t know if monopolice was a type but it needs to immediately be added to the Urban Dictionary website because imma use that word a lot from now on.

probably not - ISPs, DNS services and just about everything else is heavily centralized and at the top are the same people who censored the platform to begin with.

Even if you were to host it in some other country, applications will be blocked, domains in federated networks will be blocked and so on.

If you actually wanted to achieve something you would need to federated hardcore federated: create a fairly easy way for your users to host their own instances. That's the strength of a federated network.

With infinite money: Buy the providers that offer the services you need.

El cheapo solution: Host outside the US.

A) Of course, why not?
B) If money was no object, I'd do it very differently than I would normally.
C) Not sure what you're asking here.

A) Yep, I'm at my eighth web service hosted from home, for now
B) I would go with rented machines in the countries where most of the users are and figure out a routing strategy to make it scale
C) given each business its own infrastructure, as long as the supply of such infrastructure is available for business I don't see any issue anyone scaling up and growing the markets

Move to diaspora I guess