New tech stuff

[andrewducker]

New find of the day - wua.la - distributed online storage. Back your files up to _everywhere_.

I can see it working, so long as it's successful - it's a very neat idea. You upload your files to their servers - and also to other user's machines. When you need to download them they're downloaded from somewhere else in the 'grid', unless those other machines are off, at which point they're pulled from the central servers. This saves them a lot of money.

The whole thing's encrypted, and files are broken into chunks, so nobody else can rifle through your files.

And the neatest thing is, so long as they've designed it well, the more successful they get, the cheaper it gets for them to run.

Anyone else bumped into it yet?

Comments

[derumi.livejournal.com]

That is true.