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Re:Show HN: I am building Reesd, a redundant storage service by fiatjaf on Monday February 17, 2014 @03:20PM (#7254236)
To use scp instead of a custom protocol (or even HTTP) is the neat thing here. The possibilities are infinite.

Also, this makes me think about what today's services that run on HTTP could run on top of basic Unix tools (like scp) instead of building their own infrastructure on top of HTTP or something else (I couldn't think of any, though, so I'm probably wrong in thinking this).

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Re:Show HN: I am building Reesd, a redundant storage service by derefr on Monday February 17, 2014 @06:53PM (#7255329)
I really wish that more services that dealt with documents just exported either a synthetic WebDAV or SSH server.

Mounting either of those server-types as a directory is simple and straightforward on Windows, OSX, or Linux, which is something that can't be said for pretty much anything else.

I really wonder why S3 isn't (mainly) a WebDAV service, for that matter...

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