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P2P CDN for Low-Cost Video and File Delivery

These created technical and social technologies to create P2P CDNs.

And note that I (also) said "social technologies". The social technologies were as important as the software.

P2P CDNs can hugely reduce the cost of serving files, including videos. (There is a long history of them working.)

P2P CDNs can make serving large files on the Fediverse much more viable.

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P2P CDN for Low-Cost Video and File Delivery

There are techniques for creating a CDN that can support a community while keeping costs down.

You can trace the history of these techniques back to at least the 1990s.

Broadly speaking, these techniques were use with:

BitTorrent, Private BitTorrent Trackers, and Direct Connect.

I think the Fediverse can and should learn from these techniques, and put them to use.

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P2P CDN for Low-Cost Video and File Delivery

There are definitely affordable commercial choices for CDNs for smaller sites and home-labers.

But, if you are trying to build a community (with many, many users) — a CDN can become expensive. Even very expensive.

(Electronic Arts (EA) has a whole team that takes up half a floor whose job iis to negotiate pricing from the Akamai CDN company.)

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@reiver/116681762071911900

P2P CDN for Low-Cost Video and File Delivery

A CDN is a service that stores copies of your website's files in many locations around the world so visitors can download them from a nearby server instead of one far away. This makes your website load faster and stay available even when lots of people are using it at the same time.

CDNs are not only important for Fediverse servers but they are important for the Web in general

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MyWebHost Dec 22

Too Many Baubles: How Plugin Bloat Weighs Down Your Tree

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Dec 14

[Fediverse CDN]

Once you have Fediverse Caching servers — you have the basis to create a Fediverse content-distribution-network (CDN).

A (Fediverse-native) Fediverse content-distribution-network (CDN) could bring a new level of robustness and scalability to the Fediverse — while still maintaining the properties of decentralization, federation, and localization.

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Dec 14

[Fediverse CDN]

One way to increase the robustness of the Fediverse is — to introduce the concept of a Fediverse Caching server.

It (the Fediverse Cachine server) caches stuff from the Fediverse rather than the regular Fediverse servers (that house local users and local content).

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