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Seeing the discussion around disk42 (Saas version of seafile) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8739094 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8739094 I though
by blaze33 12y ago
Seeing the discussion around disk42 (Saas version of seafile) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8739094 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8739094 I thought it would be a good time to repost the space monkey link (not that I'm affiliated nor a user) to see where we are in terms of distributed storage protocols now.
Some q&a I had with their co-founder: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6996053 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6996053 (parent discussion mostly about an alleged kickstarter scam)
- notum 12y agoActually Space Monkey was discussed before as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5564546 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5564546 While the fragmented/distributed backup approach is cool and useful some people might not like paying $50 for the privilege of seeding other people's files with their bandwidth.
- blaze33 12y agoThanks, I hadn't seen this thread before, I was actually thinking that an open protocol would allow you to have a fast/reliable/etc. backup in exchange of a share of your local storage. Obviously if it's phrased like I'm paying to have other people use my bandwidth, that's a big issue.
- ansible 12y agoA few years ago, when Dropbox was starting to get popular, I was thinking of a similar scheme. You would pay for the device, and then you would get X% free cloud storage as long as it was online. Some people would prefer a fixed up front cost and no monthly fee.