Hostirr
A community cloud marketplace where hosts offer spare compute and renters launch metered, isolated spaces.
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Hostirr is a two-sided community cloud. Hosts install an outbound-only agent on spare machines and publish capacity, while renters browse the marketplace and launch durable, metered spaces. The product includes encrypted storage, interactive shells, host and renter consoles, audit trails, and fleet updates.
Honest isolation
Workloads can use hardened containers, gVisor, or Kata microVMs according to the host's capabilities. The marketplace describes those trust tiers plainly: commodity hosts provide useful workload isolation, while stronger host-confidentiality requires appropriate hardware.
The stack
An LLM deployment pipeline reads a repository, writes its Dockerfile and repairs failed builds automatically.
The control plane is written in Go with PostgreSQL and gRPC over mTLS for agent transport. Nuxt powers the marketplace and separate admin surface. Hostirr is in active development, with its private alpha currently limited to me and friends while the security and trust model is hardened.
Technology
- Go
- Nuxt 3
- PostgreSQL
- gRPC
- mTLS
- Docker
- gVisor
- Kata