Thom W8TAM (US-MI)Our Hamvention forum on the technical history of Parks on the Air, and the goals of the under development upcoming version. https://youtu.be/KWK2FJ4h8co #hamradio #parksontheair
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Treknor@treknor Funny, we've been using it for over 8 years very successfully. Parks on the Air is built on AWS.
@w8tam that's not what I meant ... it is IMHO just a better idea not to work with AWS and to organise the whole thing on a grass root level.
it would be more cost effective, more independent, and a really community thing.
maybe a bit less convenient but that would be something that would much less important than the rest
beside all of this.... AWS is just an evil company
@treknor Supporting 88,000 users on a grass root level is a bit of a stretch.
@w8tam it is... but it is possible.
Blizzards Battle Net central "server " was once a single PC...
it is possible, just less convenient and the users have to learn how to use it.... but there is no real show stopper.
but I am just a European who despise big tech, so everything I have to say is obviously strange and alien.
I understand that.
@treknor POTA once ran on a single server. That's where we started too. It's not reasonable for us to own hardware, and buy upgraded hardware when we out grow what we bought. We barely survive on donations as-is. We'd never survive if we had to buy the hardware we use by purchasing AWS services. 88,000 users is a very large service. There's no way to run a service like POTA with bare hardware on the donations we currently get.
@w8tam if you say so. I am not convinced
but that is not important, because I will not convince you of point of view.
but that is not important, because I will not convince you of point of view.
@treknor I don't feel any need to convince you of anything. You made an invalid comparison, and don't understand the reality of enterprise level infrastructure. It's not my job to teach you. I explained reality, but if you choose not to believe it, that's your problem.