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> Will my data be lost if the project is not popular enough? I'd like to know how that works out too. I suppose in the end it's up to you to make sure you keep
by transfire 8y ago
> Will my data be lost if the project is not popular enough?
I'd like to know how that works out too. I suppose in the end it's up to you to make sure you keep a base copy of your project so it is always available, even if near zero popularity.
- cjbprime 8y agoI can think of a few interesting approaches: 1) We set up something like the Internet Archive, spidering and caching the network, run using donated bandwidth. The hosting could be centralized like the Archive or p2p itself (donated by peers). 2) A system like FileCoin's where you pay a tiny amount of money to ensure other peers will always host your repos on the network. 3) A straight up centralized, for-profit service where you pay a company a monthly fee to host your data on the network, as people already do with GitHub itself.
- fwip 8y agoPlease note that FileCoin doesn't provide any guarantees. It only provides incentives for other people to host your data. It's like paying a centralized service, except you don't have any recourse (legal or financial) if the people hosting it decide to stop.
- cjbprime 8y agoThanks for the correction. I guess you get a probabilistic "guarantee" in that you could see how many peers are serving your content at any given time, and make assumptions about their independence from each other and likelihood that your content will stay available?