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> how a P2P system is going to maintain always-on backups/storage of my personal photos. A client to something like OceanStore.
by a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
> how a P2P system is going to maintain always-on backups/storage of my personal photos.
A client to something like OceanStore.
- MichaelGG 13y agoI read the first paragraphs of the overview[1]. It sounds like a federated service that the end-user would still pay for and treat like AWS. The P2P aspect is inter-company federation of storage (so like AWS and Azure could cooperate). This isn't P2P in the common sense (end-user devices aren't talking to each other). And it doesn't eliminate the need for AWS-esque providers, even if their backend happens to be federated among multiple companies. To the end-user, there's zero difference. 1: http://oceanstore.cs.berkeley.edu/info/overview.html http://oceanstore.cs.berkeley.edu/info/overview.html
- a8da6b0c91d 13y agoThere's no need for anything like AWS or any payments. You offer some of your bandwidth and storage to the P2P network and get bandwidth and storage in return. Any machine on the network can participate. It has nothing to do with cloud providers. It's quite analogous to bittorrent.
- MichaelGG 13y agoRight, so in other words, it doesn't help most users in any way, shape, or form. It's no replacement for AWS or Dropbox or anything of the sort. I'm not going to run it on my tablets. My kids aren't going to run it on their laptops. Edit: Even the overview says "The providers automatically buy and sell capacity and coverage among themselves, transparently to the users." It's clear from the overview that it's meant as a way to achieve a better availability than a single company, not as some magical free P2P replacement.
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