March 03, 2003
Open-content distribution via P2P
THIS WEEK NetSpeak explores a couple of content distribution services that employ Peer-to-Peer (P2P) techniques.
It is common knowledge that you can distribute content via web by just uploading the resource file on to a web server to which you have access. But, if you have large valuable content, over time many people will get attracted to it. This will naturally increase the web server's load and ultimately your visitors may find it difficult to download the content. The problem becomes more acute if you are hosting free content that can be downloaded by anyone on the web.
It is common knowledge that you can distribute content via web by just uploading the resource file on to a web server to which you have access. But, if you have large valuable content, over time many people will get attracted to it. This will naturally increase the web server's load and ultimately your visitors may find it difficult to download the content. The problem becomes more acute if you are hosting free content that can be downloaded by anyone on the web.
