Re: Beta5 now Available

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 05:33:15PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Montag, 22. November 2004 17:40 schrieb David Fetter:
> > A much slimmed-down bt.postgresql.org is now serving it. :)
>
> Out of curiosity, what purpose does a bittorrent source serve in
> this case?

BitTorrent was designed to take bandwidth load off servers that would
otherwise need to be on very large and expensive pipes. It does this
by serving mostly information about where other servers are, rather
than serving the same (much larger) chunks of data over and over again
to clients.

You can find more information on what BitTorrent does and how it does
it at

http://bittorrent.com/introduction.html

HTH :)

Cheers,
D
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