> Speaking of which, how long before it won't be possible to host your own web server?
It's increasingly getting harder and harder. Recently I was trying to watch a TV show with my friends using a self-hosted Plex server, which was located in one of my friend's house, connected via a gigabit, albeit residential link. Another friend was using LTE internet at that time. He couldn't watch the show, because his connection was so slow, but when he did a speed test the download speed was good enough (100+ Mbit).
Turns out the mobile carrier was throttling connections to select IP ranges to about 1 Mbit (we tested that with a few other IPs). I reckon it was to cripple peer-to-peer protocols. So I guess it's a matter of time until you will be allowed only to connect to certain IP addresses owned by the biggest companies (AWS, Azure, GCP) and nothing else.
Net neutrality wouldn’t fix this is if the issue is a peering problem (which is very common today). The internet has become so centralized that ISPs cheap out on transit and just direct peer to all of the big content providers.
It's increasingly getting harder and harder. Recently I was trying to watch a TV show with my friends using a self-hosted Plex server, which was located in one of my friend's house, connected via a gigabit, albeit residential link. Another friend was using LTE internet at that time. He couldn't watch the show, because his connection was so slow, but when he did a speed test the download speed was good enough (100+ Mbit).
Turns out the mobile carrier was throttling connections to select IP ranges to about 1 Mbit (we tested that with a few other IPs). I reckon it was to cripple peer-to-peer protocols. So I guess it's a matter of time until you will be allowed only to connect to certain IP addresses owned by the biggest companies (AWS, Azure, GCP) and nothing else.