Date:         Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:27:38 -0600
Reply-To:     Adrian Bertarelli <abertarelli@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Adrian Bertarelli <abertarelli@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: [NVC} Personal Servers on a home PC
Comments: To: Kenneth Lewis <kdlewis@northstate.net>
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IT is all fine and dandy to have file servers like this.  If you
really want to serve large files and such you should use a FTP server.
 IT is a proven technology and works and is fairly safe.  However it
is out of date and has been replaced by bittorrent.  If you really
want to get something to the masses you set it up as a bit torrent,
especially if the the content is questionable like lets say music.
The bittorrent works way differently, you dont need tons of storage
space and it doesnt really get tracked back to one person.  IT works
through finding pieces of the torrent file out there and putting it
back together as the original file, but coming from other people
running bittorrent clients and leaving them open.  I have been a
member of lots of music trading groups over the years and the old
trusty stand by was FTP servers, but they just take a ton of bandwidth
and a ton of storage space. Normally on a dsl/cable setup you really
wont be able to serve out very much bandwith maybe 30k or so to 2
maybe three people so large files are going to take a while.  With bit
torrent it uses bandwith from all over the place so your downloads can
get pretty rippin fast.
Adrian

On 3/31/07, Kenneth Lewis <kdlewis@northstate.net> wrote:
> John,
> Here is a web site I have been studying so I could  host a DSL website on my
> own computer; http://www.dslwebserver.com/ .
> I have been wanting to move my website http://neksiwel.20m.com/  (Vanagon
> content) . It's been slow going (no pun intended).
>
> Ken Lewis
>