>I would love to see servers become easier to host.
Unfortunately blockchain, which is what people are trying to push as part of the decentralization, is making servers harder to host.
You can run a Bittorrent server or an IPFS node on a $50 Raspberry Pi. But if you want to spin up a Filecoin node, you need a server that has at least 8 CPU cores, at least 32 GB of RAM and enough SSD space to contain the chain that's expanding at a rate of 38 GiB per day. The listed minimum requirements for the mining server are even worse - at least 8 CPU cores, at least 128 GB of RAM and a good chunk of NVMe SSD (1 TB preferably), with a recommendation for a "powerful GPU" to boot. The only sensible option is the Lite node that can run on a measly dual-core with 2 GB of RAM - which can only operate on such low hardware requirements because the lite nodes do not actually contain the blockchain.
Unfortunately blockchain, which is what people are trying to push as part of the decentralization, is making servers harder to host.
You can run a Bittorrent server or an IPFS node on a $50 Raspberry Pi. But if you want to spin up a Filecoin node, you need a server that has at least 8 CPU cores, at least 32 GB of RAM and enough SSD space to contain the chain that's expanding at a rate of 38 GiB per day. The listed minimum requirements for the mining server are even worse - at least 8 CPU cores, at least 128 GB of RAM and a good chunk of NVMe SSD (1 TB preferably), with a recommendation for a "powerful GPU" to boot. The only sensible option is the Lite node that can run on a measly dual-core with 2 GB of RAM - which can only operate on such low hardware requirements because the lite nodes do not actually contain the blockchain.