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Reply to myself since I cannot edit: Depending on how much storage you need, it might be cheaper to get a dedicated server or colo your own versus getting a virtual machine. Feel free to reply if you have questions on this.
Any advice on getting either of those in Australia for less than an arm and a leg?
1. Protocol level filesystems featured by a company (single point of failure) 2. Uses existing services in ways those other companies may not like. (Serf in someone else's walled garden) 3. Closed-source, with maybe promises of open sourcing later 4. Hard to search, given the name is -e from a real word 5. Relies on extensive network bandwidth, especially in cases upload is scarce To think of a few.... As converse, I…
IPFS serves a totally different purpose and can't be used in any reasonable way to achive what Infinit seems to be doing.
This looks really great and I love the direction. Hopefully they're working on making it more consumer-friendly. ;) Questions: 1. They say that "While most solutions (Dropbox, GlusterFS, OwnCloud etc.) store your files unprotected in the cloud or on a specific server, we took a diametrically opposed direction by relying heavily on encryption. Whenever a file is stored in Infinit, it is cut into chunks, every chunk is…
Thought this looked familiar, this is from February and they still have the source as "coming soon (tm)". So until that coming soon becomes released I'm not really all that bothered by this thing.
It's 2nd may today man.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reply to myself since I cannot edit: Depending on how much storage you need, it might be cheaper to get a dedicated server or colo your own versus getting a virtual machine. Feel free to reply if you have questions on this.
Any advice on getting either of those in Australia for less than an arm and a leg?
This looks really great and I love the direction. Hopefully they're working on making it more consumer-friendly. ;) Questions: 1. They say that "While most solutions (Dropbox, GlusterFS, OwnCloud etc.) store your files unprotected in the cloud or on a specific server, we took a diametrically opposed direction by relying heavily on encryption. Whenever a file is stored in Infinit, it is cut into chunks, every chunk is…
The part about GlusterFS storing files unencrypted is untrue, BTW. We've had full at-rest encryption using client-only keys for years before they came along. Makes me wonder how many of their other "original ideas" are just failure to do basic research before jumping in to make a buck.
I don't see a list of features at all here or an obvious link to them. Most sites have something like this (see "Why Sector/Sphere?"):
http://sector.sourceforge.net/
Or this:
Wait, that one almost sucks as much as GlusterFS site. It could also use a page detailing exactly what it can and can't do with obvious link on front-page. At least it had obvious link and basic description, though.
So, hard to judge writer of recent post on what features were in GlusterFS, etc if their page doesn't go through the trouble to list them without us having to dig. I'd have to point two fingers. Fortunately, Wikipedia to rescue doing what site didn't do:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlusterFS
Note: Oh shit, it still doesn't mention encryption. Not in the comparison or list of distributed filesystems either. Still undocumented for casual researcher.
How would this be better/different than https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs ?
If you flip on the "Compare" switch there, the two differences it shows are:
1) Infinit is redundant using replication while Tahoe uses erasure codes
2) Infinit supports heterogenous storage backends, while Tahoe is homogenous
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Reply to myself since I cannot edit: Depending on how much storage you need, it might be cheaper to get a dedicated server or colo your own versus getting a virtual machine. Feel free to reply if you have questions on this.
Any advice on getting either of those in Australia for less than an arm and a leg?