On Wednesday 14 December 2005 12:23, Crispin Cowan wrote:
That is not always true. The BitTorrent capability to distribute workload is very useful for very heavy, bursty loads. For instance, when a new Linux kernel appears, everyone rushes all at once to get it, and the web servers sag. But the BT shares just chug away, because the people who have fetched even a partial copy start taking up some of the load to pass it on to others. The distributed P2P protocol helps to absorb the burst. But in general you are correct, sharing with Apache is more manageable than sharing with a P2P client.
Yes, and BitTorrent is generally not a "classic" p2p protocol. It just enables one to distribute content more efficiently, but you still need to distribute the torrent files and have a tracker up to delegate streams. Security-wise, this is probably the best solution, but obviously not the easiest to set up and use (and I think this is not a coincidence). Regards, -- Jure Koren, n.i.