Their pop-up thingy doesn't show up properly in Firefox (Linux). When I click on it, it shows one and a half paragraph, and no scrollbar is available.
Same in Chrome (Mac).
Arc.io – A Crowdfunded Distributed CDN
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Re: Arc.io – A Crowdfunded Distributed CDN
#22So... Hetzner bandwidth is $0.00112/GB, almost 18x cheaper than arc.io ( https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Traffic/en ) And Hetzner is a no-nonsense real company that's been around since 1997. Hetzner machines have dedicated 1Gbps connections. Arc.io promises nothing. Arc.io is a faceless company with no track record, no history, and doesn't say how long they've been around. Who would you choose?
More importantly the performance of Arc.io website is dreadful.
If you're going to sell high-performance then you should at least make your own website perform well.
If your website performs well then I'm more likely to believe your story.
Re: Arc.io – A Crowdfunded Distributed CDN
#23So... Hetzner bandwidth is $0.00112/GB, almost 18x cheaper than arc.io ( https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Traffic/en ) And Hetzner is a no-nonsense real company that's been around since 1997. Hetzner machines have dedicated 1Gbps connections. Arc.io promises nothing. Arc.io is a faceless company with no track record, no history, and doesn't say how long they've been around. Who would you choose?
What would our technological landscape look like currently if everyone was hostile against new companies? Old doesn't mean good.
Re: Arc.io – A Crowdfunded Distributed CDN
#24So... Hetzner bandwidth is $0.00112/GB, almost 18x cheaper than arc.io ( https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Traffic/en ) And Hetzner is a no-nonsense real company that's been around since 1997. Hetzner machines have dedicated 1Gbps connections. Arc.io promises nothing. Arc.io is a faceless company with no track record, no history, and doesn't say how long they've been around. Who would you choose?
How many different geographic regions can I get a hetzner server?
Re: Arc.io – A Crowdfunded Distributed CDN
#25They mention transparency but I don't see anything being open-source? Seems like something so community focused would benefit from that.
Re: Arc.io – A Crowdfunded Distributed CDN
#26So... Hetzner bandwidth is $0.00112/GB, almost 18x cheaper than arc.io ( https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Traffic/en ) And Hetzner is a no-nonsense real company that's been around since 1997. Hetzner machines have dedicated 1Gbps connections. Arc.io promises nothing. Arc.io is a faceless company with no track record, no history, and doesn't say how long they've been around. Who would you choose?
How many different geographic regions can I get a hetzner server?
Not many. A couple in Germany and one in Finland. Not exactly a global reach.
Re: Arc.io – A Crowdfunded Distributed CDN
#27So... Hetzner bandwidth is $0.00112/GB, almost 18x cheaper than arc.io ( https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Traffic/en ) And Hetzner is a no-nonsense real company that's been around since 1997. Hetzner machines have dedicated 1Gbps connections. Arc.io promises nothing. Arc.io is a faceless company with no track record, no history, and doesn't say how long they've been around. Who would you choose?
What would our technological landscape look like currently if everyone was hostile against new companies? Old doesn't mean good.
I don't intend to be mean to new entrants.
The crypto/distributed space has an issue with vaporware and not living up to claims. Arc.io has a lot to prove, in other words.
I'm hoping users will think twice before using infrastructure that's not ready, or up to par, or not likely to have longevity.
Re: Arc.io – A Crowdfunded Distributed CDN
#28Looks awesome and Cheaper ($0.02 per GB)!
Re: Arc.io – A Crowdfunded Distributed CDN
#29I'm curious about this line: >Users receive 10% in user rewards for sharing bandwidth with the network. Does this mean the users who are visiting the site with the Arc widget (acting as seeds for the p2p cdn)? Is Arc going to send me a check in the mail, and if so, what registration do I need to do to get that money? If most users don't sign up to be paid, what happens to their "share" of that 10%? Is it redistribute…
Reading their full page on this, the current setup is donating the currency to Wikipedia (which, individually I'm fine with), and I imagine that if it's unclaimed and your nose/browser is unlinked to your account, money is continued to be sent there.
Re: Arc.io – A Crowdfunded Distributed CDN
#30Full of webshits