Can somebody explain to me how this works? Gridspot doesn't use a server farm li... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		zxcvvcxz on July 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Gridspot, 10x cheaper cloud compute using... Can somebody explain to me how this works? Gridspot doesn't use a server farm like Amazon? I don't get it. Looks like a pretty sweet service though.

damian2000 on July 11, 2012 [–]

If I understand it right, the 'cloud' VM you get is running whole or in part on desktop user's machines out there somewhere in the world (and connected to the internet) who have donated their machine's spare CPU power to GridSpot.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact