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Anyways, other than that it’s a fun concept. I like the P2P nature of it.
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>Something doesn't add up here. They're actively telling third parties to lease cloud servers with large amounts of free bandwidth: Bare-metal servers are much better is our case. Please note, bandwidth is not free. You can follow the links and see the actual price for it. If LeaseWeb tells you: 1 Gbps dedicated/unlimited per $143/month, it means you can use it 24x7. >- They are paying the third party less than what…
> If LeaseWeb tells you: 1 Gbps dedicated/unlimited per $143/month, it means you can use it 24x7. While that is true in theory, if you in practice saturate your bandwidth 24x7 by reselling it your contract will probably get cancelled (or at least that is the case for most "unlimited" contracts). I don't think you actually answered the questions of the parent.
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>Something doesn't add up here. They're actively telling third parties to lease cloud servers with large amounts of free bandwidth: Bare-metal servers are much better is our case. Please note, bandwidth is not free. You can follow the links and see the actual price for it. If LeaseWeb tells you: 1 Gbps dedicated/unlimited per $143/month, it means you can use it 24x7. >- They are paying the third party less than what…
> If LeaseWeb tells you: 1 Gbps dedicated/unlimited per $143/month, it means you can use it 24x7. While that is true in theory, if you in practice saturate your bandwidth 24x7 by reselling it your contract will probably get cancelled (or at least that is the case for most "unlimited" contracts). I don't think you actually answered the questions of the parent.
That being said I could still see this being against TOS if you end up chewing up SSDs, hosting dodgy content or running at full power constantly.
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>Something doesn't add up here. They're actively telling third parties to lease cloud servers with large amounts of free bandwidth: Bare-metal servers are much better is our case. Please note, bandwidth is not free. You can follow the links and see the actual price for it. If LeaseWeb tells you: 1 Gbps dedicated/unlimited per $143/month, it means you can use it 24x7. >- They are paying the third party less than what…
> That's why the _Peer_ sets the price for his service. But that breaks the economics of this, no? If you're in the US and charge $6/TB and I'm in Germany and charge $100/TB, why would traffic ever go to my server? If your US server gets overloaded, am I now making $100/TB? How does the network ensure that this is both fair and competitive? Moreover, how can a customer know that they're not going to get a surprise bi…
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>1. Performance. also please note: if you have 1 image on the page - we have to do 2 requests (1 metadata, 1 download) if you have 50 images on the page - we have to do 51 requests only (1 metadata for all images, 50 downloads)
> if you have 50 images on the page - we have to do 51 requests only (1 metadata for all images, How do you know the nearest peer has all the images at hand?
- we divide web cache in buckets
- these buckets have different sizes
- we know a list of files in every bucket
- we know what buckets every Peer has
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>a CDN isn't just about bandwidth, it is about _disk_ The disk performance - is the weakest part of the Peer. It is a part you can't guarantee any QoS on a cheap server. The idea is to keep popular cache on Peers in memory. Everything else we will host from a limited number of regular servers (belong to Farba), with high-performance disk subsystem. >Cache management (eviction, invalidation, etc) is done where? yes. Y…
> The disk performance - is the weakest part of the Peer. It is a part you can't guarantee any QoS on a cheap server. The idea is to keep popular cache on Peers in memory. Everything else we will host from a limited number of regular servers (belong to Farba), with high-performance disk subsystem. I use a CDN to serve about 50GB of files stored on my origin, which turn over every week or so (a new 50GB every week). W…
What stops a peer from, say, injecting malicious JavaScript into pages? Or going rogue and serving porn for every request for a JPEG? What if they only do it for every 1000th request? You could send a hash of the file to the client from the coordination server and check it. If the hash isn't valid, you can re-request the file from another peer. But I don't think you can trust the client to report abuse: a malicious c…
This fraud is possible. We collect logs from three sources:
- the Balancer (belong to Farba)
- the Peer
- the User
We can analyze every single case of suspicious behavior.
as a web developer, no thanks, I do not want to trust my app’s speed to your profit incentive or margin.
This says it's a system for delivering content "efficiently", but it doesn't look like this manages that. Normally loading a resource is a round trip to your server, which might be a bit inefficient because your server could be on the other side of the world. But what they replace it with is: 1. Round trip to Farba to get metadata. 2. Round trip to your "driver" to get the resource. 3. Computing the hash of the resou…