P2P CDN for Low-Cost Video and File Delivery
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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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#FediDev #CDN #ContentDeliveryNetwork #ContentDistributionNetwork
PeerTube P2P protocol + HLS
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PeerTube uses a P2P protocol with HLS to distribute videos — and to reduce costs for serving videos.
(It is somewhat BitTorrent / WebTorrent like.)
I wonder how often how often P2P downloads tend to happen.
It probably depends on a number of things — but it would be interesting try to understand it better.
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#FediDev #PeerTube
