However, if you want to go truly distributed (much more so than any website I know of) there are open source projects you can learn from: http://freenetproject

However, if you want to go truly distributed (much more so than any website I know of) there are open source projects you can learn from: http://freenetproject.org/ http://freenetproject.org/ http://amule.org http://amule.org (or http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/Main_Page http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/Main_Page if you're into functional programming) http://www.torproject.org http://www.torproject.org (especially the hidden services stuff) And you probably want to read this: http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/osdi99.pdf http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/osdi99.pdf