Breaking Complexity
Traditional IT stacks are overloaded with layers of outdated technology, resulting in high costs, slow implementation, and a high rate of failed projects. HN simplifies IT from the ground up, cutting through inefficiencies to make change faster, smoother, and more affordable.
HN introduces user-defined data ownership, secure data sharing, and innovative query languages that remove the limitations of current IT solutions. This isn't just an upgrade, it’s a fundamental shift in what cloud computing can accomplish.
Pay for what you use
HN's costs are very straightforward. We bill users only for bandwidth and storage used. For bandwidth, the system charges €0,35 per GB. For its lowest tier storage (low priority, queryable, and always available for up to 10K transactions per day), it charges €0,85 per GB per month. Higher storage tiers for increased availability are charged up to a maximum of €6,90 per GB per month.
Each month, the system sends users a simple invoice, detailing the month's charges and the amount of storage and bandwidth used.
Hyper-fast performance
HN guarantees a standard response time of 3 seconds for queries, regardless of dataset size. To ensure quick responses, the system automatically moves frequently requested data to faster nodes and, if needed, to multiple nodes. Even early in its launch period, HN was already capable of scaling its bandwidth up to 10 terabits per second.
Security
HN was built with security as its foundation. All data within the system is protected with asymmetric, military-grade encryption, both when stored and during transmission. To enhance this security, keys are continuously and rapidly rotated, while all data is further obscured with a custom salting algorithm, preventing unauthorised access.
This results in security through obscurity: There is no way to determine where data is stored. HN is a giant database platform with all data randomly named and stored in micro files of equal size. For attackers, trying to locate a single, specific piece of encrypted data within HN is like trying to find a needle in a pile of needles—all stored on a container ship full of needles, a container ship built of needles, floating on an ocean of needles. We say, good luck.
Your data is only accessible to you (until you decide to share it, specifying who can access what, when, and for how long).
HN's approach to access rights is very granular: permission and access can be specified within any database, down to the table, row, column, or field level—even time-restricted if you choose.
Furthermore, we anticipated and developed tools to address human error vulnerabilities. We review everything: every record update, who made it, on which system, and so on— all supported by a simple rollback feature. If an employee accidentally alters or deliberately sabotages a dataset for any reason, a single query covering a specific timeframe can undo all of that individual's work.
Redundancy
HN addresses the main issues companies face with system replication, such as backups, failovers, disaster recovery, data warehousing, and legacy storage. When a file is distributed across the system, it is divided into packets and replicated across five different ledgers. If a ledger becomes unavailable for more than a few seconds, the data is automatically copied to another ledger to ensure the best possible uptime and accessibility. The ledger with the highest uptime and available speed among the five is designated as the primary source for the data.
Privacy
HN takes privacy very seriously, as we regard it as a basic human right. All communication and databases within the system are highly secure and accessible only to the owner and authorised users. HN does not permit the creation of accounts with different file permission levels or any other form of backdoors, including global active directories and falsified admin rights. Unless authorised, no one but you can view or control your data. Your data is your data, and only you should have the power to decide what to do with it.
And for a DSP with a ledger: HN has no interest in your personal data, browsing history, consumer habits, social media activity, or any other private information you generate while using the internet. We don't collect your data, we don't scrape for it, crawl for it, or mine it—and we don't resell it.
Transparancy
At HN, we believe that transparency is crucial for building trust and fostering growth in a company, as it impacts everyone at every level. That’s why HN is open about various aspects of its operations: performance, revenue, internal procedures, sourcing, pricing, and business ethics, along with oversight on who has access to what data.
Climate impact
Standard datacenter infrastructure consumes a lot of energy for cooling and power redundancy. Energy you won't need when running nodes at home. This marks the first reduction in CO2 emissions. It means savings for entire data centre buildings, decreasing their resource usage.
The next minor advantage is that server hardware is designed for continuous operation, meaning that almost every component within servers is redundant, which makes them more power hungry. HN achieves redundancy through the platform layer, eliminating the need for redundancy in the node hardware. This reduces power consumption and electronic resources.
We observed that consumers at home handle investments differently. While companies write off their hardware relatively quickly, replacing it mainly to reduce the risk of using outdated equipment, consumers tend to replace their hardware only when it breaks or performs poorly. (Except for smartphones, which companies might be slower to replace.)
Finally, we hope to develop a market for older hardware. We would love to see the reuse of older hardware in countries where the economic circumstances are so bad that the population cannot afford any new devices. This would also provide these countries' lower-income citizens with a passive income (although internet connection issues are still an unresolved problem).
Social impact
Corporate social responsibility has become increasingly important, especially as business becomes more global. HN offers a simple and direct way for companies to contribute to fulfilling a promise and being part of a solution: most of HN's operational costs are paid directly to individuals managing the system's nodes, providing a passive income stream for every user who joins our worldwide network.
Moreover, anyone can access and utilise HN's enterprise-grade infrastructure for their own applications. This means programmers worldwide can develop and deploy software on a reliable and global infrastructure—at a significantly lower cost than before.
While HN offers a more effective IT infrastructure, we are also broadening the scope of possibilities and fostering social impacts with no boundaries—utilising true data privacy and transparency; a nearly unlimited capacity for big-data analytics; and a revolutionary boost to machine learning that can create a significant difference in society far beyond the commercial sector.