The most economical solution

I recently saw a discussion on how to set up a movie server on the Forum. In fact, this is almost one of the necessary projects in large and medium-sized Internet cafes, when I was surfing the Internet in several Internet cafes in Guangzhou and Wuhan, I saw that these Internet cafes already have their own movie servers. I also asked professional website developers to design a set of beautiful pages, many Internet users come to the internet cafe to target movies on the server. Therefore, investing in a movie server has become a necessity for almost every Internet cafe, and can even be considered as a basic project.
However, the movie server we are talking about today is not a LAN movie server in an Internet cafe, but a more extensive audience and more advanced technology movie server application-P2P movie server.
Why is this movie server introduced?
First, traditional movie servers store all movie files on one server, and then allow all clients to connect to the server and browse movies on the server online, this traditional C/S operating mode undoubtedly puts a lot of pressure on the server's disk system, and also has high requirements on the server's network bandwidth.
In addition, traditional movie servers have high Configuration Requirements, so the product prices are very expensive. Coupled with high bandwidth requirements, the cost of network is also a huge burden for operators.
Now we have introduced the P2P movie server to solve the above problems:
Let's first introduce what P2P is:
P2P is the abbreviation of peer-to-peer. peer has the meanings of "status, ability, etc.", "colleague", and "partner" in English. In this way, P2P can be understood as "peer-to-peer", or "Peer-to-Peer Networking. At present, people think that it has a bright future in strengthening the communication, file exchange, distributed computing and other aspects of the network.
Put simply, P2P directly connects people and enables people to interact directly through the Internet. P2P makes communication on the network easier, more directly shared and interactive, and truly eliminates middlemen. P2P means that people can directly connect to other users' computers and exchange files, rather than connecting to the server to browse and download files as they used. Another important feature of P2P is to change the current state of the Internet centered on large websites, return to "non-central", and return power to users. P2P seems quite new, but just as B2C and B2B are porting things that are common in the real world to the Internet, P2P is nothing new. In real life, we face-to-face communication and communication through the P2P mode every day.
Even from the perspective of the network, P2P is not a new concept. P2P is the basis of the overall Internet architecture. The most basic protocol of the Internet, TCP/IP, does not have the concept of a client and a server. All devices are equal ends of communication. Ten years ago, all Internet systems had both server and client functions. Of course, the software developed later on TCP/IP does adopt the Client/Server structure: browser and Web server, mail client and mail server. However, for servers, they are still on the Internet. Taking email as an example, there is not a huge and unique email server on the Internet to process all emails. Instead, the Internet-based email servers collaborate to send emails to the corresponding servers. In addition, emails between users are always the same contact channel.
In fact, many existing services on the network can be classified as P2P. Instant messaging systems such as ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Pager, Microsoft's MSN Messenger, and OICQ are the most popular P2P applications in China. They allow users to communicate with each other and exchange information and files. Information exchange between users is not direct, and a server in the center is required for coordination. However, these systems do not have such functions as search, which are very important for a large amount of information sharing, the lack of this feature may be one of the reasons why instant messages have been present for a long time but have not had an impact such as Napster.
The most popular P2P application is the popular BT download. In fact, the working principle of the P2P movie server is very similar to that of BT download. Let's first introduce the working principle of BT download:
BT first divides a file into Z parts on the uploader. A randomly downloads N parts on the server, and B randomly downloads M parts on the server, in this way, the BT of Party A will go to Party B's computer to obtain the M part that has been downloaded by Party B, the BT of Party B will go to the computer of Party A as needed to obtain the N part that has been downloaded by Party A, which not only reduces the load on the server side, but also speeds up the user side (Party A and Party B) the download speed and efficiency are also improved, and the restrictions between regions are also reduced. For example, if C needs to connect to the server for download, it may only be a few K, but it would be much faster to Get It On A and B's computers. So the more people you use, the more people you download, and the faster you get. Here is the advantage of BT. In addition, while you download the file, you are also uploading (some part of the file that someone else takes from your computer). So while enjoying the download provided by others, you are also contributing.
This method of BT is applied to the audio and video field, which is called P2P streaming media technology. In terms of audio, the Internet phone Skype, which was nearly banned some time ago, is a representative. In terms of video, P2P movie servers are an application method, sina and Netease used the P2P streaming media technology provided by the MYSEE live video network to play online videos when Shen 6th took off. Due to the large number of viewers, P2P played its role of multi-person traffic distribution, therefore, the live broadcast effect is very satisfactory.
Therefore, P2P movie servers have very low hardware configuration requirements for server equipment and low network bandwidth requirements, if you plan to set up a movie server with limited funds, consider it. You can also search for more information and believe that this economical and practical movie server is still very attractive.