Darel Finkbeiner [email protected]
Had to use three letters due to Donal Fellows.. :)
Outline for Distributed Blog.
Concept: Someone over at one of the conservative blog sites mentioned the "ridiculousness" of a blog being taken down by DDoS. The idea immediately sprang to mind, how about a P2P type system? One where the blog is "mirrored" on lots of other "servers". And people just get the blog feed from the nearest most reliable source...
This presents some issues that have nothing to do with the technical hurdles. Mostly with traffic counting. Since many of the larger blogs generate revenue through traffic, distributing the blog in this fashion would take that away.
However, such a system could be designed as a "backup". Distribute the blog in this manner, and allow the feed part to be turned on or off by the owner of a blog. That way, if the blog goes down, they just send an email, the program picks it up and says, "Oh, I need to turn on the feed for blog X. Let me notify any partners I can see." It then forwards the email to any addresses that it knows about, which tells them to activate. (This part would need some smarts, since you wouldn't want to duplicate... a simple flag to check if the feed is on at a certain peer before sending the message)
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