git ssb - more scaling notes · Kira/p2p-faq@969e1e16

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6	6 …	systems by design, and most distributed systems are meant to scale. You could
7	7 …	say, then, that many distributed systems take cues from p2p systems in order to
8	8 …	scale properly. As a good example, Skype was built by the same engineers who
9	9 …	built Kazaa, and Skype internally used p2p distribution in order to alleviate
10		-the load from any single node, and to save costs.
	10 …	+the load from any single node, and to save costs. Bittorrent also thrives in
	11 …	+situations where there are a high number of peers.
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	13 …	+Like centralized systems, performance will suffer if the load is not
	14 …	+distributed. A torrent file with only one seed and thousands of leechers would
	15 …	+struggle to initially share to the first wave of peers. Unlike a centralized
	16 …	+system though, once that first wave of peers downloads a copy, the bandwidth for
	17 …	+that torrent data to be served grows exponentially.
	18 …	+
12	19 …	## If websites are hosted on p2p, what happens when no peers are online?
13	20 …
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