Just an idea; I was reading the text Fritz asked to revise/correct and stumbled upon the plans of expanding the "PB network" so that it may include more machines and infos
Now... while the current "http based" approach may be good for testing and/or to serve a "limited number" of client, I think that before adding more servers/clients/services to the network, it may be useful rethinking the whole infrastucture to avoid some pitfalls first of all; wide usage of the current "http based" PB may bring the system on its knee and/or may be subject to DDoS and to similar kinds of attacks, also, increasing the number of clients and/or the amount of traffic (more data) may bring to the same effect An idea to solve this issue may be setting up things using a "P2P" approach (as opposed to the "client-server" one) or, better a DHT one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table) this latter approach may help distributing the infos on a wide number of systems and providing at the same time a quick and easy way of finding them, fault tolerance, DDoS resilience and scalability of the whole system; I know that such a thing can't be implemented in a snap, but I think it may be worth a thought ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Assp-test mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-test
