uServ -- P2P Webserver from IBM

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday December 1, 2001 @06:59PM from the not-to-be-confused-with-serv-u dept.

ryantate writes: "Some folks over at IBM have been working on the uServ Project, which provides "high availability web hosting ... using existing web and internet protocols", meaning you can serve a website from your desktop and people can get at it with a standard Web browser and without special software. They claim the system, which works from behind firewalls and when you are offline (provided you can convince other peers to 'replicate' your site), is in active use by about 900 people within IBM. Here's the white paper."

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Sounds like a ripoff of Freenet by Astral+Traveller · 2001-12-01 19:09 · Score: 4, Insightful

Freenet already does all this, and in addition, provides for complete anonymity and encryption. It can also be tunneled over just about any other protocol (instead of being limited to HTTP like uServ). It is still under heavy development, but already contains a wealth of information. This is one of the few truly great open-source projects in development today.