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uServ -- P2P Webserver from IBM

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Sounds a lot like by anotherone · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sounds a lot like Freenet.

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  2. Intriguing by peanutbadr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is really, really cool and interesting.

    ...

    Seriously.