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Extended storage on WWW servers
Since most internet service providers offer some space for web presentation and most users don’t use it, it can be utilized as addition storage for Wuala.
For example:
1. User creates free account http://myweb.myisp.net
2. Reveals username / password to Wuala server (and just Wuala server)
3. Wuala can upload and manage file fragments via FTP (using known login / password)
4. Other users download file fragments from this storage via HTTP anonymously
Although this space is much smaller that on local PCs, it can serve its purpose – it is always online and well-connected and can be used for storing (or caching) most popular and most frequently accessed file fragments.
For example:
1. User creates free account http://myweb.myisp.net
2. Reveals username / password to Wuala server (and just Wuala server)
3. Wuala can upload and manage file fragments via FTP (using known login / password)
4. Other users download file fragments from this storage via HTTP anonymously
Although this space is much smaller that on local PCs, it can serve its purpose – it is always online and well-connected and can be used for storing (or caching) most popular and most frequently accessed file fragments.
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Inappropriate?Interesting. However, I guess the service provides would start to block Wuala if it starts to cause to much traffic. Many service providers have some terms of service that would allow to close your account if you 'abuse' it for other things than running a website.
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Inappropriate?Most paid providers, however, just set a traffic limit. Looking at some dutch ISPs, most of them give 20mb-1gb free website space with their subsricptions (depending on the plan and provider obviously) with which you can do basically anything. The speed is usually capped at something around 10-50Mbit/s anyways and that wouldn't be too much of a problem either in case of 100mb.
I would think that it definitely is worth a try (seeing how many users just leave the resources they paid for unused)
I’m happy
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Inappropriate?Webhosting program I pay for (and don’t use fully) allows me to upload 500 GB per month which is several times more than I am capable to upload from my PC (presume 50 KB/s upload limit and 12 hours online daily) so placing data into web server would be significant improvement for Wuala network.
Wuala should be responsible for monitoring of data exchange on these web servers and when reaching traffic limit (500 GB per month in my case), redirect downloading clients back to “classical” local storage. -
Inappropriate?There are additional technical problems with this approach. Wuala often downloads pieces from 100 different source, if it had to connect to all of them with http/tcp, some routers might crash. Furthermore, http and ftp don't support random access which is necessary for streaming videos and music in Wuala.
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Inappropriate?I hope that at least random access problem can be solved by presence of special script file on web server. I just do not want to give up my idea so easy. :)
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Inappropriate?> Furthermore, http and ftp don't support random access
Many web servers support Partial Content retrievals. I do this with Bittorrent webseeding (GetRight spec) which shows a status code of 206 on my Apache web server log. Not sure about FTP.
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This is one of the best points
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FTP doesn't allow segemented downloads in it's spec... HTTP does though (that's what "download managers" often do) -
FTP allows resume I think. Although, unless you make a point of disconnecting from the FTP server the rest of the file would be retrieved. Yeah, a little messy.
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