Suggestion for Plesk: bandwidth sharing

[ryan14]

Plesk should have a bandwidth sharing feature that lets website visitors become part of the website's server.

For example, a person has 1 dedicated server with Plesk and the person wants to reduce his bandwidth use. So he goes into Plesk, chooses bandwidth sharing, and this generates a software, person puts this software on his website and visitors download and run it, and when people access the person's website from now on they will be downloading some data from the web server and some data from all the visitors who have downloaded and running the software that makes their internet connections become part of the server. Of course the people who downloaded the software won't be able to see/edit/delete/download/upload any files on the server.

 

[faris]

I'm not quite with you.

What are you trying to acheive here?

It isn't possible to reduce bandwidth consumption by "sharing" it. Everything that comes in and out of the server will always go through the same physical connection and therefore be measured. Similarly, everything that comes in and out of a broadband or dial-up connection to the internet will always be measured, no matter what its ultimate destination.

You can create a tunnel from a dial-up or broadband connection to your server, resulting in all or some of your traffic being routed through your server, but the same amount of bandwidth would be consumed by your broadband or dial-up connection as it would have without this tunnel, and your server would consume more bandwidth because it is now acting as a router for your traffic.

Maybe if you tried explaining again? Or maybe I'm just being dim It is known to happen on occasion.

Faris.

 

[ryan14]

ok

basically what i'm saying is that plesk should have a cluster(multiple servers connected to each other that work as one) feature so the website user's internet connections become part of the server cluster and so they will be using some of their cpu and bandwidth to form the cluster.

 

[faris]

I'm afraid I'm still not clear on what you are trying to achieve.


Maybe if you explain what benefit expect/want?

 

[jdlitson]

Sounds like peer to peer + web server = less bandwidth on the web server.
Or maybe it's like a torent + webserver = less bandwidth on the web server.

You could also open a rapidshare account to lessen the bandwidth on your sever.
It's not free but it's cost effective.