The way I see it is there is a significant chunk of the market that would prefer not to centralise on the big providers.
A couple of technologies that have been looked at at various CoTech meetups and conversations:
OpenStack
OpenShift
Dokku
There is also the ability to deploy from Gitlab to a Kubernetes cluster that seems interesting: Project-level Kubernetes clusters (certificate-based) (DEPRECATED) | GitLab
All of these include elements of scaling/compute/storage that are necessary when deploying applications these days to keep the costs down. I just wonder if there is a way we can decentralise some of the compute aspects of the stack so it doesn’t all rely on one co-op.
@nick was involved in some of these discussions and setup a OpenShift stack for testing.
However this doesn’t really answer the question of raising capital for the actual hardware itself.