On Tuesday, October 17, 2006 Wes Felter wrote:
> For personal data, one server per person may be a viable alternative
> to the Googlepocalypse.
Come to think about that, just a few thousand terabytes of
personal storage will be enough to store 25 billion Google documents
at 16KB each, all the related pictures, 65,000 Netflix movies at 2GB
each, plus all the music in Gnutella, all the necessary cross-indexing
for the search in this storage, and still have some space left over
for whatever.
Then the interesting part becomes not the search and download
functionality (which becomes trivial and local), but rather an issue
of propagating the updates in the cluster of several billion such
"personal storages" when the new information gets published.
Should be fun, too...
Best wishes -
S.Osokine.
17 Oct 2006.
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Subject: Re: [p2p-hackers] P2P vs traditional client-server model
On Oct 17, 2006, at 8:10 AM, Peter Triantafillou wrote:
> I enjoyed all of your comments.
> However, I feel that all are missing the big issue: control of data/
> resources and manipulation.
> Centralized services (like google), even at internet scale, may be
> able to offer better *technical* properties over P2P solutions. But
> why should we (and can we) trust a single entity (organization/
> company/...) with the world's data?
>
> P2P technologies are thus the only available solution (at least for
> all who dont like big brothers)...
That's not clear IMO. For personal data, one server per person may be
a viable alternative to the Googlepocalypse. I don't consider this
P2P, since the servers would have no particular need to talk to each
other. Except SMTP and Jabber S2S and... :-)
Wes Felter - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://felter.org/wesley/
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