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The electricity costs are quite low, as we are just serving website content, which isn't CPU or GPU intensive at all. If you computer is already on, you will notice no difference in additional electricity costs.

Yup, the software will use a bit of hard drive space as well, but it won't use more than a GB of hard drive space.

A rough benchmark is simply $5 for each 100Mbps. So if you had a 200Mbps connection, you would earn $10 a month. We don't have a set runtime criteria, but look for desktops which are on for the majority of the week. Yes, but your changes of acceptance depends on region! So in super popular...

Main target is definitely for computers that are online anyway and aren't being used. It doesn't add to the electricity cost much at all, it's pretty much the same as watching a YouTube video! High paying online work is always great, but every bit helps right? :)

Nope, our business model is cloud services, not data collection. We collect a bit of data about your internet speeds and hardware to help run the service though!

Hi everyone, FluidStack is a cloud platform that serves websites from a network of consumer devices (instead of large data centres). We save websites money, and put unused hardware to good use. We are looking for beta users to run FluidStack nodes. This means installing the software and...