So, by this argument, a single Decentralized Web Server can serve a million websites to 4 million users and cost $14,000. Even if it does not perform this well, this could work well for quite a while.
Obviously, we do not want just one Decentralized Web Server, but it is interesting to know that one computer could serve the whole system during early stages, and then more can be added at any time. If there were more, then the system would be more robust, could scale to larger amounts of data, could serve users faster because the content could be brought closer to users.
Performance and cost do not seem to be a problem—in fact, there may be an advantage to the decentralized web over current web server technology.
The Internet Archive, a non-profit library, hosts buy sales lead many things. Many, many things. Billions of old webpages, lots of concerts, nostalgia computer games, TV, books, old movies, contributed books, music, and video, and much more.
But some of it seems to make some people mad. China is blocking us, Russia recent stopped blocking us, and India took a crack at blocking us last year. And then there are the occasional denial-of-service attacks by who-knows-who? claimed by some Anonymous-linked group. Another one seemed to ask for a bitcoin to turn it off. Yup, “Pay us $400 and we will put you back on the air.” Really? (We didn’t give it to them.)
Each time this happens, it causes a bunch of engineers and managers to run around to deal with it. Thankfully, a bunch of people donated this last time, out of sympathy, I guess — thank you.