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Re:Serverless Sync in Web Apps Using Bit Torrent by greglindahl on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @06:59PM (#11906047)
The Internet Archive seeds all of our items' torrents since 2012. IPFS is a more straightforward way for us to be sure we've got independent seeds of all of our content. Got 25 petabytes of disk?
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Re:Serverless Sync in Web Apps Using Bit Torrent by toomuchtodo on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @07:49PM (#11906294)
I've always wanted to write a distributed ArchiveTeam torrent server that, instead of distributing crawlers for ingestion, equally distributed IA torrents to distributed end-user storage (in a VM most likely). If seeding for a torrent dropped below a threshold, that torrent would be advertised to other client nodes to download and then serve themselves. Client VMs could come and go, and the announcer would always ensure remote storage was handled in an orderly fashion.

Perhaps this year is the year!

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Re:Serverless Sync in Web Apps Using Bit Torrent by niftich on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @07:26PM (#11906189)
Uhhh, 20 GB free...

I'm just a third-party, but if you were to get in touch with the IPFS team to host a limited amount of IA content as a proof-of-concept, I'm sure it would be a great publicity for both of your organizations.

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Re:Serverless Sync in Web Apps Using Bit Torrent by greglindahl on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @07:40PM (#11906257)
We're in touch with them, yes, and we have a proof-of-concept node.
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