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Would a decentralized storage option work to reduce some costs incurred by the centralized storage companies (ie, P2P via torrents)? Offload the bandwidth and s
by xyst 3y ago
Would a decentralized storage option work to reduce some costs incurred by the centralized storage companies (ie, P2P via torrents)? Offload the bandwidth and storage to community members willing to loan out their unmetered home connections for hosting the nixOS packages? Even corps or startups can loan out their infra to assist on an as needed basis and use the depreciation as some sort of tax write off.
- bityard 3y agoIn the old days of the early web, we called these "mirrors"
- tikhonj 3y agoThe equivalent of mirroring would be using a CDN. I understand that NixOS already does this through Fastly. The problem is that the base data is substantial (425 TiB) and expensive to store on S3. Just mirroring the base data would not change this. Some sort of way to distribute the 425 TiB among multiple hosts/etc might help, but seems like that would be really complicated to manage reliably—much harder than finding a new sponsor or moving off S3 to some more efficient alternative.
- CodesInChaos 3y agoThe problem is ensuring that files will reliably be available for years. P2P doesn't do a good job in that regard.
- reocha 3y agoSome work has been done on integrating ipfs within nix. https://github.com/obsidiansystems/ipfs-nix-guide/blob/master/tutorial.md https://github.com/obsidiansystems/ipfs-nix-guide/blob/maste...