[1st-mile-nm] [FRIAM] Kicking the Internet up a notch

[Owen Densmore]

Finally!  This is a good intro to what Don and I have been working on  
the last couple of weeks.  The network is the computer .. wait .. Sun?

Here's step one, the cloud:
   http://www.joyent.com/accelerator
Basically we're tracing the newest "hosting" technologies, and believe  
me, they are changing at light speed.

Cloud computing is a brilliant combination of hardware/server  
advancement .. where small fractions of a "blade" can have its own IP  
address, to software that "virtualizes" these fractions into dozens of  
"sites".  And when I say "virtualize", I DEFINITELY do NOT mean VMWare  
or Parallels.  I mean a fascinating combination of DNS stunts with  
name-based sub-servers on every "site".  And yes, these services offer  
clustered systems so you can go from a fraction of a server to  
multiple servers.

Basically Torrents are going to replace streams, and Virtual Servers  
are going to replace hosting services as we once knew them.  Currently  
the torrent part is weakest, but we believe we'll see "torrent url's"  
soon .. stunts where the torrent technology will not be limited to  
file sharing, but will be a "transport" for any layer in the Internet.

To be specific, Don and I have an architecture for hosting that  
includes two "computers" .. one the typical shared hosting service ..  
but with GREAT programmer oriented services, an the other a dedicated  
fraction of a "blade" (with root access).. which bursts up to the full  
blade, or can advance to clustered.

Managing this is a "DNS Management Service" .. yet another web hosting  
service that lets some of the requests for our domain go to the shared  
system, and others to the shared .. i.e. a form of load balancing.   
And for storage, the service has a Network Storage System (Joyent  
Bingo Disks) that is completely scalable, and on a 100Mb pipe.  All  
facilities interoperable.

Managing all this is a fantastic web based administration package  
called Virtualmin .. virtual computing administration.  And we can  
move our Virtualmin system from Joyent to Amazon (S3/EC2) in a day,  
with Virtualmin's migration facilities.

Its not your father's internet any more!

See these:
   http://www.joyent.com/
   http://www.virtualmin.com/
   https://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/

So Tom, the answer to:
> Let's see now: what are the odds we in New Mexico -- hell, in the  
> U.S. --
> will ever see a fraction of this in our home?
.. is very high if we in The Complex decide to work on this.  The  
pieces are in place.

    -- Owen


On Apr 6, 2008, at 8:33 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:

> Let's see now: what are the odds we in New Mexico -- hell, in the  
> U.S. --
> will ever see a fraction of this in our home?
>
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3689881.ece?print=yes&randnum=1207538948023---
>
> -- tj
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