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Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

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Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

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Post by stanac »

sroerick wrote: post #11

This is pretty interesting! I think serving video is a particularly interesting use of Webtorrent. I think it would be good if you could add this as a front end to basically make sites DDOS proof. So you host like a regular site, but with a JS front end that hosts the site P2P the more traffic there is.

There is PeerTube for video content.

Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

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Post by recursivegirth »

elbci wrote: post #6
dtj1123 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This isn't my site, nor do I have any opinions on the implementation here. I do however find the idea of serving web pages via torrent interesting.

p2p storage as in torrent or IPFS or whatever is the part that we kinda' solved already. Serving/searching/addressing without the (centralized) DNS is still missing for a (urgently needed) p2p censorship resistant internet. Unfortunately this guy just uses some buzzwords to offer nothing new - why would I share links to that site instead of sharing torrent magnet links?

Thinking about this a little bit... could we use a blockchain ledger as an authoritative source for DNS records?

User's can publish their DNS + pub key to the append-only blockchain, signed with their private key.

Use a torrent file to connect to an initial tracker to download the blockchain.

Once the blockchain is downloaded, every computer would have a full copy of the DNS database and could use that for discoverability.

I have no experience with blockchains or building trackers, so maybe this is a dumb idea.

Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

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Post by xd1936 »

cranberryturkey wrote: post #14
xd1936 wrote: post #13

Fun! I wish WebTorrent had caught on more. I've always thought it had a worthy place in the modern P2P conversation. In 2020, I messed around with a PoC for what hosting and distributing Linux distros could look like using WebTorrent[1]. The protocol project as a whole has a lovely and brilliant design but has stayed mostly stagnant in recent years. There are only a couple of WebRTC-enabled torrent trackers that have…

http://bittorrented.com

Oh wow
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