A "single server" covers a pretty large range of scale, its more about how F-droid is used and perceived. Package repos are infrastructure, and reliability is important. A server behind someone's TV is much more susceptible to power outages, network issues, accidents, and tampering. Again, I don't know that's the case since they didn't really say anything specific.
> not hosted in just any data center where commodity hardware is managed by some unknown staff
I took this to mean it's not in a colo facility either, assumed it mean't someone's home, AKA residential power and internet.
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A "single server" covers a pretty large range of scale, its more about how F-droid is used and perceived. Package repos are infrastructure, and reliability is important. A server behind someone's TV is much more susceptible to power outages, network issues, accidents, and tampering. Again, I don't know that's the case since they didn't really say anything specific.
> not hosted in just any data center where commodity hardware is managed by some unknown staff
I took this to mean it's not in a colo facility either, assumed it mean't someone's home, AKA residential power and internet.