I see distributed DNS to be the more difficult problem (because when you have that, the content will follow fairly easily).
The current DNS providers are mostly for profit (? - i m talking about the registras), and they ahve no incentive to move or provide the leeway to move, to a system which is harder to profit off.
Ernesto [email protected] 2/16/08
to Christopher Hi Christopher,
No, I never heard of something like that, but I like the idea There is http://www.coralcdn.org/, but that's not a complete solution
Cheers, Ernesto
On Feb 16, 2008 9:56 PM, Christopher Froehlich <[email protected]> wrote: Christopher Froehlich <[email protected]> wrote: Question: do you know of anyone developing distributed website platforms? For example, if I'm seeding and leeching a raw text file–as long as one other person in the world is doing the same, that file can never be erased. If someone were to share a PHP/MySQL website, with Apache perhaps integrated into the BT client–the website could never be removed.</p>
I've been looking into places like Freenet, services like OpenAFS, and the potential for extensible BT clients like uTorrent or Azureus; but nothing seems to be available. A website cluster, shared P2P would be indestructible.</p>
Have you seen anything of the like?
Sadly, I haven't seen any substantive leaps since. Even TPB's recent cloud move is entirely predicated on moving a single, virtual instance about.
Edit: Personally, I see this as the most important problem to solve for a free Internet in the next 20 years. Distributed DNS against distributed content is going to be critical.