is there any way to upload for free?

**pip99** · 10-09-2010, 04:39 AM

Originally Posted by jefffisher

i managed to get a $1 account at blocknews, uploaded about 10GB so far all perfectly i did notice something strange though "You Have Used 0.00113 GBs Of Your 1 GBs Purchased" the account has only ever been used with powerpost so i don't think i could have possibly used .00113 GBs as that program is upload only

that's perfectly fine and to be expected , plus pretty simple to get your head around.

namely Usenet uses the NNTP protocol , and that uses TCP:IP ,to do its transfer, and so you ARE always Using some upload when you download , and you ARE always using some download bandwidth when you Upload data, generic TCP:IP sends so called ACK's to say acknowledge good transmission in the other direction as you send your data content.

for the record , the original P2p IS Usenet

the P2p you think of today is just a modification of that client/server model with a DHT ( Distributed Hash Table) that came later, OC theres also been fully working open source P2p/DHT web servers made using generic apache2 server code and a few PHP P2p/DHT scripting bit's etc...

in effect everyone installs and run's this self contained web server package app locally somewhere ,and the internal P2p/DHT scripts and code makes the hashes for any changed/added local web page. message board or other generic server entries you might run inside that web server's entry's then send's that re-hashed data to the other web servers in the P2p/DHT cloud.

so all users to that site get all the updates in near real-time (while online and connected), but thats old school as there seems to be very little thought put into most web apps and how you might move data securely and anonymously these days without using payed for commercial services for Everything, and thats a shame.

remember and never forget classic Usenet used to be Free for all end users, you just run your own small Usenet server directly from your ISP given web side IP address or more likely today , through some anonymous tunnels.

such an old school local Usenet server app is the almost forgotten Classic Hamster news server http://www.softpedia.com/get/Interne...-Hamster.shtml .

so the answer to the question above, what is P2p...., anything you want it to be as regards getting some form of data flow between two or more places as long as you write the supporting scripts and code to support its use.