Hi guys,
Yes, I agree with you both – the decentralisation of the single server model shshould be in our top 10 priorities. To defend against everything from hardware failure to malicious attacks.
How about if duplicate servers were hosted by trusted volunteers – the units could send data to the primary server until it becomes unreachable, then would send to a secondary, then the tertiary server if the secondary fails, etc. We’d have to write some form of data replication (as close to real-time as possible) to keep all the servers in sync with each other – so when primary comes back online it receives the data collected by the secondary, etc. There are definitely better solutions, but I do it this way for a cluster of servers at my work, and it definitely works.
