Project Gazelle

[monk3y]

Has anyone heard anything about it ?
is it related to torrents ?

[bikernin]

yep. its what.cd's new optimized source code. its still under development and is supposed to make site faster even with lakhs of users accessing it

[Submission]

yeah its a rewritten tracker, they say tbdev or whatever is slow insecure and is crap in general.

[Geana]

This is the announcement made last week in What about it:


Well, I'm sure you've all seen our latest riddle, What begins with a G, ends with a E, and can run at 50 miles per hour, so I guess its time for an official announcement. The answer is 'gazelle', and if you guess correctly, the page links you to http://projectgazelle.org. (http://projectgazelle.org./) Project Gazelle is the official name of our new sourcecode.

Our sourcecode is meant to be the foundation of a high volume website, and has been designed around that concept. It has full memcached support, and the vast majority of the pages should be able to be run using only one to three queries - for the end user, this means "lots more users, and a very fast website". This is a pretty impressive feat, allowing a website to handle tens of thousands of users on even the weakest servers. Furthermore, the entire sourcecode is modularized - this allows people to easily create their own features, or variations of features already implemented.

The sourcecode is well organized, and commented. This means that users with only a basic knowledge of PHP and MySQL will be able to run a fully functional and scalable torrent site. In addition to ease of use, our sourcecode allows for the easy development of additional features by the general public. We feel that this is one of the stronger points of our code.

We have also taken a note from the previous issues with our current source, and are writing Project Gazelle with security in mind.

Development is coming along at a steady pace, and we expect to have a closed beta running within the next 6 weeks. We'll give you updates on the development every time we have something to get excited about, but for the time being, just keep on using the current site - all of the important data will be transferred over when we're done.

[grimms]

Yup it will finally replace the outdated TB Source according to them

[DanielleD87]

this is wonderful news! :D

i'm sure it still doesn't beat a cached http server. that can handle masses of people easily without a hitch. the fall back is a delay in server updates. aka is someone adds a message to the main page it might take 5 mins for everyone else to be able to see it.

i'm surprised people don't just look into that tech as well. :rolleyes: it is easy, powerful, anon, and well the best of just about everything. :)

[bikernin]

cached http servers do not have continuous incoming and outgoing traffic. the torrent protocol is much more complicated and involves several simultaneous connections. it may be possible however but would require some major modifications. besides this new code is supposed to be modularized making it easy to customize. that would be a really amazing feature

[DanielleD87]

not talking about for a tracker. talking about for the http end.

[bikernin]

ahh ok. maybe they are using some of that stuff. it does mention that they are gonna have memcached support

[awoeonip]

it's kind of ironic when their site is still slow as balls...

[DanielleD87]

memcached means all of the data is in the mem not the hdd. it is perfect for security because if a server gets raided then the data is not recoverable.

what i'm talking about is a full on proxy server front end that has nothing. it hosts the domain, people see its IP, and it just proxies data. no one knows it is a proxy server and they think it is the same as any other server, but there is another server somewhere with a hidden ip address with all of the data on it and everything. when people click on a web site it runs through the proxy server to the main server to get the info. if the proxy server is raided it will have nothing on it. 100% blank everything, because it is just a proxy server. also, all of the data between the proxy server and the main server can be tunneled so none of the data can be leaked.

[danio]

memcached means all of the data is in the mem not the hdd. it is perfect for security because if a server gets raided then the data is not recoverable.

what i'm talking about is a full on proxy server front end that has nothing. it hosts the domain, people see its IP, and it just proxies data. no one knows it is a proxy server and they think it is the same as any other server, but there is another server somewhere with a hidden ip address with all of the data on it and everything. when people click on a web site it runs through the proxy server to the main server to get the info. if the proxy server is raided it will have nothing on it. 100% blank everything, because it is just a proxy server. also, all of the data between the proxy server and the main server can be tunneled so none of the data can be leaked.

i have thought about this aswell.. seems like a really good way for torrentsites to hide from evil organisations :). i don't know if there are some drawbacks though?

[IceTee]

memcached means all of the data is in the mem not the hdd. it is perfect for security because if a server gets raided then the data is not recoverable.

what i'm talking about is a full on proxy server front end that has nothing. it hosts the domain, people see its IP, and it just proxies data. no one knows it is a proxy server and they think it is the same as any other server, but there is another server somewhere with a hidden ip address with all of the data on it and everything. when people click on a web site it runs through the proxy server to the main server to get the info. if the proxy server is raided it will have nothing on it. 100% blank everything, because it is just a proxy server. also, all of the data between the proxy server and the main server can be tunneled so none of the data can be leaked.

Nice :w00t:

[bikernin]

hmm i think there are quite a few sites which use that. seems ideal for torrent sites. wonder why noone has tried it though. its been around for sometime

[DanielleD87]

because of $$$

you have to pay for an extra box that you wouldn't normally need to pay for.

[grimms]

It's still a great thing. We'll see if it works in the coming months when project gazelle becomes active.

[danio]

It's still a great thing. We'll see if it works in the coming months when project gazelle becomes active.

well as far as i know what.cd will not use a vpn-tunneled proxy server.. but the project gazelle seems cool though.

[DyNast]

Thepiratebay has a similar project securep2p (http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/securep2p.com/)

[monk3y]

thanks everybody a lot of things cleared up for me now.

[bikernin]

glad we could help :)