Hostning
Hostning is a term used primarily in speculative discussions and niche communities to describe a model of hosting services that emphasizes distributed, community-supplied resources and cooperative governance. In this usage, a Hostning network consists of individual nodes that function as hosts, offering computing or storage capacity to run applications, host content, or store data, with access provisioned according to agreed rules and incentives.
Etymology and scope: The term combines “host” with a gerund-like suffix and lacks a standardized definition.
Operations and architecture: Participants run software that advertises capacity, negotiates workloads, and enforces policy. Workloads are
History and status: Hostning as a term and concept emerged in speculative and academic writing during the
Impact and relation to existing systems: Proponents argue it could lower centralized dependency and increase fault