First, anyone who has talked with me for any length of time will have no doubt heard my rant that data belongs at the edge :-) so I'm a big fan.
And yes, the no servers clause is an issue, it was raised initially by people doing peer to peer torrenting, and some folks running servers.
Enforcement is a bit tricky though because folks like Comcast and Verizon get so much value from being able to see all of your Internet traffic that they won't actually cut you off for running a local server but they will be passive aggressive about it. For example, they will start changing your IP every couple of hours (they set the DHCP lease time to be low and force the DHCP server to always give you a different IP).
The common solution is a VPN tunnel which is what Helm is doing, but that tunnel has to end up somewhere so that can be a problem if that 'somewhere' is commonly used by bad actors. (Like say in Ukrainian data centers)
I expect that this restriction will go the way of paid SMS messages eventually but for now it is going to be troublesome.
And yes, the no servers clause is an issue, it was raised initially by people doing peer to peer torrenting, and some folks running servers.
Enforcement is a bit tricky though because folks like Comcast and Verizon get so much value from being able to see all of your Internet traffic that they won't actually cut you off for running a local server but they will be passive aggressive about it. For example, they will start changing your IP every couple of hours (they set the DHCP lease time to be low and force the DHCP server to always give you a different IP).
The common solution is a VPN tunnel which is what Helm is doing, but that tunnel has to end up somewhere so that can be a problem if that 'somewhere' is commonly used by bad actors. (Like say in Ukrainian data centers)
I expect that this restriction will go the way of paid SMS messages eventually but for now it is going to be troublesome.