docs VS node

Akash Network is a decentralized cloud marketplace where tenants purchase cloud-grade compute in an open market from providers in a permissionless manner, and is built with Cosmos SDK. (source) AlterDapp recently joined as a contributor and cloud provider on Akash. AlterDapp also runs Altermail, a privacy-optimized messaging service that is now powered by Akash. (source) ALTER dapp is built on Secret Network (subreddit: r/SecretNetwork), which is a layer one solution also built with Cosmos SDK.

You can find official documentation here, but it's not that helpful towards newer developers without Docker experience as that knowledge is assumed. The full process of a NodeJS app being developed and deployed can be seen here, and once you have familiarized yourself with Docker, you can use the official documentation for better reference.

Akash on Cosmos. https://docs.akash.network/

Please find the instructions here: https://github.com/ovrclk/docs/blob/master/guides/node/upgrades/akash-3.0.md

Akash claims to be the world's first open-source, censorship-resistant, permissionless & self-sovereign decentralised solution for the cloud computing market. Akash Network uses a DPOS blockchain as a decentralised solution for managing accounting and recording transactions & deployements of the Akash Marketplace, which connects 'leasers' & 'tenents' of cloud computing deployements. It may be first useful to familarise yourself with a breif overview of the project found here: https://messari.io/asset/akash-network/profile or https://docs.akash.network/.

For cloud computing you could use https://docs.akash.network/

Hadn't heard of it till you mentioned it. It took a while to find information on what they're doing,

All three seems to have some sort of documentation. Golem has their handbook, Akash has their documentation, and iExec has theirs.

https://github.com/ovrclk/docs/blob/b6ef2944ad0538f970fb20b3b0860cdedd260b41/guides/deploy/deploy.yml this is one for another application

Run AutoGPT on the Akash Network in just a few clicks...Akash is similar to Vercel and Railway but uses decentralized Kubernetes clusters provisioned by their Cosmos based blockchain.

In what way is this different from Jackal Protocol or Akash Network?

Meh, I'm way more into Interoperability, and overall "WEB3" which includes AI I suppose. But I know how much GPU ChatGPT needs to operate, so im betting on AKASH cloud hosting to fuel decentralized AI. Which is interoperable alongside FET thanks to the COSMOS IBC / CosmWasm.

My take is that it's a platform that people may build some really spectacular applications on and some really terrible ones. A well designed layer on top of Cosmos seems like it could work well and there is some developer community there building cool stuff. The only time I used it was to get some money on it and play around with Akash Network about a year ago, and the UX on their main wallet was much smoother than using Ethereum/ Metamask for me.

I'm considering using Akash network for hosting, but https://akash.network/ doesn't give me any hint whatsoever about what kind of cost to expect. I understand it's a marketplace, thus there's no such thing as a pricing table. But I need to get some idea about ballpark numbers before investing any time trying it out. Is there something you could link me to which helps form an understanding of typical costs for running stuff on Akash?

This was possible thanks to the high level of programmable privacy offered by Secret and the unstoppable cloud infrastructure provided by Akash.

Like … renting server host for any Docker Image?? Such as Minecraft Servers, websites, or anything you can make yourself?

On Akash, you can rent servers from a P2P marketplace to host, for example, a Minecraft Server, your own dockerized project (e.g. a NodeJS project) or one of dozens free-to-use useful examples. Look into other utility tokens too for storage, VPN, networking, smart contracts, and more.