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Could you deploy an automatic mirror like this, so you can turn your clients into a temporary CDN while they have your page loaded?

• zabi_rauf 11y ago
  Yep you can. There was this http://peercdn.com/ http://peercdn.com/ that did that and I remember a post on HN where it served the page from other clients but used web sockets instead.
  • Nadya 11y ago
    >This page exists only if someone is looking at it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9531265 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9531265
• userbinator 11y ago
  I think it's not really advisable to do that, for privacy reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9112717 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9112717 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9893561 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9893561 Also your CDN'ing clients could serve different content, giving some of your visitors a random surprise...
  • VMG 11y ago
    you can authenticate the content to prevent that
  • SXX 11y ago
    You can easily avoid "surprise" by hashing content, but malicious clients still will be able to delay content load.