[GRLUG] "real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ; ) "

[Ben DeMott]

??? Mythological -> The CDN we use at work has 90% of their data traveling
across "Private Fiber" -> If you don't like the terminology "Dark Fiber"
then I concede its a dumb phrase; albeit the phrase the engineers at the CDN
use.

: )

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org>wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 15:23 -0500, Ben Rousch wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Ben DeMott <ben.demott at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > I think it's a really cool idea - lot's of open source projects
> distribute
> > > their distributions this way -> and it seems to work quite well.
> > This works well for distributions because they have a lot of users who
> > want the data (Install CD) they're downloading and sharing. In the
> > example initially brought up in this thread, the people joining the
> > torrent have little to no incentive for downloading the data other
> > than they are interested in Rosetta Code. Call me a pessimist, but I'd
> > prefer that the integrity of my backup system depend on more than just
> > someone's whim to give me hard drive space and bandwidth.
>
> +1, this sounds to me like a rather dodgy form of backup, not all that
> much better than when people can copying-to-another-drive "backup".
>
> But there may be a kernel of a good idea.  If you have n data centers
> that need backup capability [meaning off-site reliable storage] each
> contributing some storage to a private cloud and peering would seem like
> a good idea.  Of course [having tried this] negotiating that in reality
> is rather unlikely.
>
> > > Thanks for being willing and open to share unique ideas, even if it is
> > > (just) a thought experiment, I feel people are too afraid to throw out
> ideas
> > > for fear of criticism so thanks for helping to break down that stigma.
>  I
> > > really would like grpug, and grlug to be an environment that no matter
> the
> > > topic or idea people can throw out their thoughts and experiences
> without
> > > having to be worried about judgment or criticism.
> > I'm afraid I can't agree with you here. I would like to see grlug be a
> > place where people can express their ideas specifically so that the
> > idea can be picked over by people who know more than I do. If I ask
> > something on the grlug list, I ask it because I value the criticism of
> > the people on this list. There is a lot of experience here, and I want
> > to tap into that. Of course, I'd prefer that people be friendly and
> > constructive with their criticism, but I also don't want them to not
> > criticise a silly idea because they're afraid of bruising my ego.
> > I started GRPUG because I had no experience with Python and I wanted
> > to learn the correct way of doing things from better programmers with
> > more experience than I have. When I write some bad code, I want them
> > to tell me so, and also let me know what I can do to make it better.
>
> And I've seen his code...  Yikes!  It is almost as bad as mine - which
> is scary.
>
> > > Someone should start a business around this, that is privatized or the
> > > backbone is dark fiber -> like a CDN, just the content would be large
> files
> > > that was distributed for quicker downloads.
>
> The concept of "dark fiber" is almost entirely mythological.  There is a
> lot of unused fiber capacity but that doesn't make it any cheaper to
> connect to.
>
> > I heard of a company doing this a couple of years ago, but I can't
> > recall the name. This is a different company, but is using the same
> > idea http://www.symform.com/
>
>
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