Re:Show HN: MASV – Send 20GB+ files up to 1 Gbps. Pay-as-you...
by davehorne on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @12:51PM
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Absolutely agree. We really built our network out to be independent of our file transfer tool. It creates routes across any cloud provider and can integrate into any cloud storage provider. It also uses machine learning to determine which routes are optimal based on previous performance and time of day. I see a future where you could use our network for many different products such as an accelerated VPN, streaming live content, or as you pointed out as a pass through network for a P2P connection if both endpoints are available but it would route across our network to avoid congestion. Potentially even being able to make a copy of the transfer in the cloud for archive. Even P2P relies on routing across the public internet which is prone to congestion and is set up to do least-cost routing for the ISP's. Usually it's less of an issue though because the protocols help ensure it pushes through that congestion. Lot's of cool possibilities for this in the future and nowhere near enough time!
I think there is a very legitimate need for centralized administration, I have all of my Syncthing node configurations synchronized over Syncthing itself (which is a bit of a risk, but not overly so), but I would consider paying for something (if I could have similar confidence and flexibility with the client software) more integrated, with some safeguards against accidentally disabling configuration sync (which would require me to directly configure the node) to a specific node, and some integrated ability to have nodes self-report and self-allocate.