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REALLY? Because I was just seriously considering moving to KC until I read that sentence. If the legal agreement says no servers, then what is the point? What is the point of moving your startup to KC if you technically aren't allowed to run a business off of Google Fiber?

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What home ISP allows you to run a server? "Business class" is always required for that sort of thing.

That said, few startups should be hosting their own servers, no matter the speed of their internet connection. Everything else you do will be blazing fast though.

I've run servers off residential IPs before. I use to maintain a community box for me and a bunch of friends when I lived with my parents. It wasn't fast but it met our needs. The only problems I ever ran into with the ISP was when I tried to run a mail server.

Optimum Online, on their Boost package

Productivity of your crew, mostly. Serving a consumer or b2b website is probably not something you're going to want to do out of a house any time soon. Google Fiber isn't redundant, it doesn't give you better RW security or route around any of the other problems of enterprise-grade hosting. It's just FAST internet.

> Serving a consumer or b2b website is probably not something you're going to want to do out of a house any time soon.

I always thought this was primarily because of bandwidth and scale issues. Removing the bandwidth issue leaves the scale issue, and that's just a matter of how far you're willing to go in your own home, isn't it?

Your home isn't nearly as reliable as a data center, not to mention the lack of elasticity compared to the cloud.

From the FAQ: "For businesses located in qualified fiberhoods, we plan to introduce a small business offering shortly". If you're seriously interested I'd give them a call and get more details on the exact timeline.

This whole thing is an experiment by Google to see how people will use the Internet in the future, when people can actually get gigabit/s connections. I think the point is to see how end users use it, not to host a lot of content.

I think that's the wrong view, though. Maybe what happens when people get that much bandwidth is, they will naturally start running more servers!

Why would you run your startup's servers from your residential ISP?

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