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		mooneater on Aug 17, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: P2P vs. the Cloud Peers might not just be clients. P2P between servers or even datacenters might work well.

Maro on Aug 17, 2008 [–]

Yes, actually, Facebook uses a P2P architecture, but their peers are running on their own computers in their own datacenter. In this article, when I say peer, I'm referring to nodes running on outside computers.

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