2011/1/18 Michael Blizek <mic...@michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com> > Hi! > > On 16:35 Tue 18 Jan , Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson wrote: > > Pagekite is a very pragmatic attempt to enable more p2p-like behavior on > the > > WWW by making it really easy for people to run publicly visible HTTP (or > > HTTPS) servers from personal and/or mobile devices. The system is not > true > [snip]
> > This sounds very interesting. I guess that you can do something similar > with > some of the VPN services out there, but creating a native protocol for HTTP > might be way more efficient. It would be possible to run lots of web sites > with a single frontend and a single IP. It should also be possible to > reduce > the traffic between the frontend and the backend by doing some caching and > compression. > Yes, exactly - Pagekite actually already does compression of the tunnels, and adding a caching layer for the unencrypted traffic at the front-ends is somewhere on the TODO list... VPNs are far more powerful of course, but as you mention, making efficient use of the IP address space is becoming more important all the time. The other advantage to the Pagekite approach (IMO) is that once the protocol is reasonably stable and accepted, it should be simple enough to embed directly into end-user software products (free or commercial). So launching a new web-site could be packaged to the point that it's just a 'register name, download, double-click' affair. What is particularly interesting is that running web sites can easily be > done > anonymously. However, this will put some strains on the front end > operaters. > But then the connection between the end user and the front end should > really > be encrypted. > Pagekite supports HTTPS, but it can only do it reliably for modern browsers which implement the SNI extension to TLS. This does not include most Windows XP users (Chrome is the only browser that works there AFAIK), so it'll be a few years before that is a seamless experience. However, if you are setting up a private site and want e2e encryption, asking your users to upgrade to Chrome may not be a huge burden. So this is possible today, with caveats. The anonymity thing... well, front-end providers will have bandwidth costs so finding one that lets you anonymously connect for free may prove difficult, and once you pay, you usually aren't truly anonymous anymore due to the paper trail. But finding a provider that respects and protects your privacy to the extent allowed by law might not be too hard. But the Pagekite architecture does mean your actual IP address is always hidden from everyone but the front-end provider, which may be enough anonymity for many. Embedded linux based NAS systems have IMHO still a lot of potential. I would > really like to see them transform into "home servers" which can take back > control from the "cloud" to the end users. I think that your piece could be > quite important. > I agree, and I would love for pagekite to make its way into those things... :-) > > Thoughts? > > Very nice... > Thanks! -- Bjarni R. Einarsson The Beanstalks Project ehf. Making personal web-pages fly: http://pagekite.net/
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