What filesharing protocol is best suited to sharing lots of small-ish files?
September 14, 2006 12:23 AM Subscribe
What's a good filesharing server+client combination for sharing thousands of small (~3 MiB) files?
I've got a huge collection of photos taken at various high resolutions (so most of the photos are 500 - 3500 KiB) which I'd like to share with a community of photographers that live around this place. They've also thousands of photos of a similar size that they'd love to share.
I tried setting up an eMule server (Lugdunum) and have configured it for the task, but I'm beginning to think/realise that the eMule protocol isn't optimised for large collections of small-ish files. As such, I reach out to the collective MeFi wisdom in search of a protocol that would be appropriate for this undertaking.
Possibly something like FastTrack, even. However, I'd prefer to keep it centralised. Thanks!
I've got a huge collection of photos taken at various high resolutions (so most of the photos are 500 - 3500 KiB) which I'd like to share with a community of photographers that live around this place. They've also thousands of photos of a similar size that they'd love to share.
I tried setting up an eMule server (Lugdunum) and have configured it for the task, but I'm beginning to think/realise that the eMule protocol isn't optimised for large collections of small-ish files. As such, I reach out to the collective MeFi wisdom in search of a protocol that would be appropriate for this undertaking.
Possibly something like FastTrack, even. However, I'd prefer to keep it centralised. Thanks!
DCC on IRC?
posted by i_am_a_Jedi at 9:33 AM on September 14, 2006
posted by i_am_a_Jedi at 9:33 AM on September 14, 2006
An FTP serve with appropriate user-permissions so they could upload? That's certainly pretty centralized and easy to install.
posted by now i'm piste at 9:37 AM on September 14, 2006
posted by now i'm piste at 9:37 AM on September 14, 2006
^--- Plus platform agnostic. FTP is FTP.
posted by now i'm piste at 9:37 AM on September 14, 2006
posted by now i'm piste at 9:37 AM on September 14, 2006
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"PixVillage is to photo what BitTorrent or Kazaa are to file sharing"
If that doesn't fit the bill check out this about.com page which lists many P2P services designed specifially for photos.
Otherwise, DC++ ?
posted by sophist at 1:58 AM on September 14, 2006