After we first announced Runkod we received a lot of questions. Today we would like to give you some more technical information about Runkod and answer some frequently asked questions.
In essence Runkod is a file router between the internet and Gaia storage that handles visitor requests and serve files over gaia storage. When a request hits to Runkod it resolves relations and redirects it to the corresponding point in the related project.
While doing that uses some caching mechanism to serve files faster.
Basically Runkod uses Blockstack as a infrastructure platform (like amazon or digital ocean)
Runkod stores files on Blockstack's high performance decentralized storage Gaia.
Relatively. Blockstack keeps some records of Gaia storage on a blockchain.
Runkod runs only frontend code for now. But maybe in future.
Sky is the limit. There are some theoric limits but we are pretty sure you won't be able to exceed them.
Runkod uses a customized version of letsencrypt client that we specially developed. Once you setup a project with custom domain Runkod creates a ssl certificate in seconds and renews it every 30 days.
Base features that we have developed so far will be free forever. We are working on some paid features like git integration or collaborative development tools (CI/CD) that we will announce in middle term.
Because we have similar goals to decentralize web, Steem does best job to decentralized content discovery and reward system for users, while runkod will decentralize web hosting to help with adoption of these both technologies. If you like idea behind Runkod try it out, maybe we will increase synergy between technologies by offering you to host your decentralized blog on Runkod, regardless, we are happy to share news with you.
Contact us:
[email protected]
https://runkod.com
https://twitter.com/runkodapp
https://esteem.app/@runkod
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/runkod
