[p2p-research] What should a Community do with Profit? (was: personal server technology)

[magius]

2010/2/21 M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net>:

> A VPS can certainly be "community owned", and so can a datacenter. The
> problem today is that there is little or no demand for "community
> owned" datacenters aimed just to provide VPSs for "personal server"
> usage, at least not enough to make them economically affordable.

Real communiy owned datacenters are the "CCPs", mainly in the Usa.
Community colocation projects (CCPs) are non-profit datacenters for
non-profit entities and individuals. Basicly they're datacenters in
which is hosted owners' hardware, which share common resources,
instead of datacenter's hardware as in the model described before.

Me, I know these:

http://sfccp.net/
http://www.seaccp.org/

More infos here:
http://www.colocationprovider.org
http://www.colocationco.com