Ask HN: Wasted Server Space?

2 points by ParameterOne ↗ HN
If you are paying for hosting or have your own server(s) up 24/7 and are not using all of its capacity would you consider renting it for computational purposes?

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Yes. Please don't think this is a new idea, though. :)

To make running untrusted code safe, it would have to be a restricted VM. And I think it just turns out that there aren't that many problems that it's profitable to recode for an untrusted environment, have no communication between nodes while they solve the problem, and run on an ad-hoc net.

What do you mean by profitable to code for untrusted environment? how can this be fixed?
This is very much achievable using KVM virtualization. Shoot us an email if you have any questions - admin@blueleafhosting(dot)com