We are in an era that infrastructure-as-a-service is so cheap that development cost is quickly over infrastructure cost. With service like AWS, companies able to build system that can be scaled up to tens of millions of users without paying infrastructure up-front. They only pay it when they become bigger. On the other hands, P2P is very costly in term of development cost. It adds complication to protocol, topology, clients, availability and new features. Startups need to change their software very frequent and very quick to stay in competition. P2P will soon become a maintenance headache for them. Today, P2P no longer offer any cost-benefits for most of the internet applications.
I think P2P is still very useful in certain areas. For example, provide private communication for dissents in authoritarian states. Edwin On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:05 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Cloud is cool, but only for corporates, it's not economicaly accesible >> > yet. >> > >> > Send from my Samsung Galaxy Note II >> >> Oh the irony! Do you know why services like Skype or now Spotify are >> moving to the cloud? Because mobile phones make lousy super-nodes, what with >> battery depletion and all that. And then you are sending your complaint from >> a Samsung Galaxy... >> > Yeah, batteries and inconsistent connections are a problem for P2P > networks... If internet is moving to mobile and this ones are not true P2P > peers but instead they get the resources directly from a server, then it > makes sense to remove the P2P platform at all and use a plain-old > client-server architecture (i.e. "The Cloud"), but it still makes sense for > desktop and permanent connections devices, or for one-to-one connections so > server only use bandwidth for signaling (WebRTC), or for secure, untrusted > connections... > > It's true that a mobile phone is a bad P2P router both for battery and > bandwidth resources. The first one will be difficult to fix, but second one > will get an acceptable situation probably in 5 or 10 years. As I told you, I > believe P2P will see a renaissance. > > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
