Hi everyone!
Over the last weeks we’ve been building out some exciting new services on the FluidStack platform. In addition to CDN, we are going to be rolling out three new services in the coming weeks:
1. Video Transcoding
We have built a distributed video transcoding service which runs across our node network. This allows us to offer video platforms (e.g. Dailymotion) the ability to transcode videos into multiple formats and resolutions. With a network of thousands of distributed PCs, FluidStack can split up the tasks and transcode videos 10x faster than the industry average.
Transcoding differs from bandwidth-based services like CDN in that it uses your CPU. We will be adding a monitor for you to see the amount of CPU time used, but we expect this to remain relatively low in the coming weeks. Even though it does use your CPU, unlike crypto mining, the electricity costs will be much lower than the earning rate—we will be releasing some tools to help monitor this in the coming weeks.
2. Geo-Proxies
We are also opening our bandwidth services to include proxy clients. Proxies allow businesses and to unlock geolocated data and analytics in a secure and reliable way. Having thousands of residential IP nodes is a great advantage in the proxy space and is something that businesses are willing to pay you a premium for.
The amount of electricity used your computer will be similar to CDN (i.e. negligible), as it is a bandwidth-based service, but there will be no storage requirement at all.
3. Cloud gaming
In the next three months, we will also be releasing our cloud gaming platform. We are partnering with some major players in the space to provide them infrastructure, allowing individuals with high spec PCs to rent them out for other users to play games on.
This will primarily use the GPU and will allow individuals to earn up to $100/month of additional income. This will be Linux only to begin with, and we will be rolling out a beta for this product in the coming months!
These new services will be opt-out. If you don’t want to rent out a particular part of your computing resources, whether that be CPU, GPU, bandwidth or storage, you are welcome to opt out—we appreciate that people have different constraints and requirements. We’re bringing in a new user interface to allow users to toggle on and off different services at different times soon, but in the meantime drop us a message on Intercom to let us know if you want to choose specific services only.
Finally, over the last couple months FluidStack has seen amazing growth. We’ve added more customers and had thousands of new sign ups, so a big thank you to the community for all the support! Of course, our network always needs more nodes, so please keep the referrals coming!
If you have any other questions, please check out our FAQs, email us, or drop us a message on Intercom!
Thank you all!
- the Fluidstack team
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