Thank you for your consideration.
You will be notified when we have a beta test for Hive. It was successful on Steem, but as I mentioned in the article the intricacy of the HP/Mbps conversion rates will be a very important stepping stone to cross.
Assuming we stay at $0.20 USD per Hive, its reasonable to expect 15% curation or more, and also provide a streamlined 99% uptime service will be varying factors that could drastically effect the feasibility if this project if people are frequently taking away delegations they needed to use for a short term VPN session.
On one hand I don't want to limit users with a terms of service agreement, also having to moderate and enforce that ToS, which takes away from the flexibility of the service.
On the other hand I don't want to be short changed in 1 year if a CPU burns out on the server rack...
Thats the last part, we can obviously rent server space, to compete with major VPN services that have Data Network Servers at their location typically. The alternative is to limit the bandwidth per user to rates that are strictly for blogging and video streaming to the measures of about, 1080p 5Mbps Video and 192kbps Audio which would allow 4 users per server rack.
With this scaleable design, and assuming no one minds us renting Amazon Web Hosting services, we can safely say it would be feasible to launch the beta soon.
If we have users who want us to host independent servers, for privacy concerns, that would require more robust funding. The HDF is a good platform, but I want at least 10 users to say I have provided them with a high quality VPN connection before I ask for money from this community out of respect for the innovative nature of this life changing blogging experience.
RE: Introducing Hive VPN