We built it from the ground up, minimal Linux based operating system (written in go and rust), messaging system written in rust and infrastructure as code support (terraform and pulumi)<p>There is even a dashboard, and a playground UI to manage it (that you can even run yourself) . Beautifully decentralized, you have full control of everything, you can deploy on your own servers if the cost of the cloud is too much. You can even run the whole system yourself if you want to.<p>Here is a link to documentation <a href="https://manual.grid.tf/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://manual.grid.tf/</a><p>Also, we are honored if it piqued your interest, and would love to support your testing journey free of charge.
Sounds cool, my question is: why ruin it with a token? It just makes your project seems unnecessarily scammy. There have been so many projects with big promises that ultimately just ended up being a scam this way.
How does reliability work? How do I know that what I store today will still be there tomorrow? What guarantees do I have that a machine executing a task will exist until completion of that task?<p>How are you handing security? What controls are in place to make sure hardware owners can’t access data being hosted or processed?
This looks like a cloud run by randos, not decentralization which would mean local apps that talk to each other.<p>I don’t want a cloud run by randos. If I’m gonna run in a cloud I want to know who runs it and see their ToS and privacy policy etc.<p>If this took off the first thing you’d see happen is people running infrastructure to steal data from people who host on it.
This looks really cool as a concept.
I am into the idea of something like this
for tech nerds to share resources.<p>As a in real life technological solution
it is a trainwreck waiting to happen.
sort of like an incidental botnet
or worse.
I don't know how to edit the main text:<p>To open-source projects, We would love to provide you with resources for as long as your project needs e.g in terms of virtual machines, kubernetes clusters to develop/test, run you workflows. All free of charge. No strings attached.<p>And this also the link for legal information <a href="https://manual.grid.tf/legal/legal.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://manual.grid.tf/legal/legal.html</a> as well
Big potential. My biggest question is how do I vet the nodes for safety? I assume that a malicious node runner could just read whatever data I put in there.
You say that HPE trusts your project.
Digging a bit:<p>HP Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
HPE wants to help ThreeFold to offer hardware and IT services to the community.<p>Are you building a centralized datacenter with HPE or are you selling
HPE to the community?