Arc.io – A Crowdfunded Distributed CDN
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Re: Arc.io – A Crowdfunded Distributed CDN
#2Interesting.
How does this affect GDPR? Are we using & monetizing customers' bandwidth without their permission?
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#3I clicked around curious how it works behind the scenes. Here is how they explain it:
https://arc.io/product#how-does-arc's-cdn-work-technically?
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#4The pricing link doesn't work on my iPhone/mobile safari.
Now the site is down...which makes me think this cdn doesn't work so well.
I currently pay ~500/mo for a cdn so I am a real potential customer.
Re: Arc.io – A Crowdfunded Distributed CDN
#5I clicked around curious how it works behind the scenes. Here is how they explain it: https://arc.io/product#how-does-arc's-cdn-work-technically? (you have to copy-paste the link because HN won't auto-link a URL with a trailing question mark)
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#6I experimented with one of the early P2P CDN's, which appears to be the same thing Arc.io is doing. Very quickly the widget ends up on all the major adblock lists and... it does basically nothing for you.
One one site that had a few hundred unique visitors per day, and the P2P CDN "saved" me kilobytes per month in bandwidth costs. Maybe a higher traffic site would see more benefit (especially if it isn't focused at tech people who have a nearly 100% install rate for ad blockers).
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#7I'm curious about this line:
>Users receive 10% in user rewards for sharing bandwidth with the network.
Does this mean the users who are visiting the site with the Arc widget (acting as seeds for the p2p cdn)? Is Arc going to send me a check in the mail, and if so, what registration do I need to do to get that money?
If most users don't sign up to be paid, what happens to their "share" of that 10%? Is it redistributed to other users, or kept by Arc?
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#8The pricing link doesn't work on my iPhone/mobile safari. Now the site is down...which makes me think this cdn doesn't work so well. I currently pay ~500/mo for a cdn so I am a real potential customer.
Content from https://arc.io/pricing :
CDN Bandwidth $0.02 per GB
Egress (worldwide) (76% cheaper than AWS1)
Usage is billed monthly, on the first day of each calendar month.
Additionally, only peer-to-peer egress bandwidth is billed; all peer-to-peer ingress bandwidth is free. For example, if a 100kB image is loaded from Arc's peer-to-peer network, only 100kB of bandwidth is billed, not 200kB (100kB of egress + 100kB of ingress).Re: Arc.io – A Crowdfunded Distributed CDN
#9Their pop-up thingy doesn't show up properly in Firefox (Linux). When I click on it, it shows one and a half paragraph, and no scrollbar is available.
Re: Arc.io – A Crowdfunded Distributed CDN
#10The pricing link doesn't work on my iPhone/mobile safari. Now the site is down...which makes me think this cdn doesn't work so well. I currently pay ~500/mo for a cdn so I am a real potential customer.
Content from https://arc.io/pricing : CDN Bandwidth $0.02 per GB Egress (worldwide) (76% cheaper than AWS1) Usage is billed monthly, on the first day of each calendar month. Additionally, only peer-to-peer egress bandwidth is billed; all peer-to-peer ingress bandwidth is free. For example, if a 100kB image is loaded from Arc's peer-to-peer network, only 100kB of bandwidth is billed, not 200kB (100kB of egress + 100kB…
Still 2x compared to backblaze b2.
E.g., it better have good performance.