Comments on: Opera Unite: Should Hosts Be Worried?

By: Mario Vidal Fernandez

Mario Vidal Fernandez — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:21:20 +0000

Opera Unite has proven to hold it’s greatest potential. I have been using Unite to host my photos, music, and website. It works very well and I do not have to pay these hosting companies to hold my files nor my website. Having my desktop running 2 TB hard drive holding my site works very well. I host my own blog network and some vacation videos. It is hard to believe that hosting companies are not concerned a little bit about users having the ability to host their own site. As long as they know people are not interested, they feel great to hold your data and to keep having the money flowing in.

There are people that have tried Unite and find it to be too overwhelming to set up and run their computers 24/7, however it make me feel great that I am the one hosting those files and I can share what is in my laptop with my social networking sites. Opera is amazing! Opera 10.60 is doing well with speed and now with my iPod touch and Android phone, I have chosen Opera mini as my default web browser.

By: nate

nate — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:18:31 +0000

null is right on. i think you missed the point. this is meant to target the social networking sites, in my opinion. now you can have your little facebook page, only your content is easier to manage on your end, and no worries about being censored for illegal or ‘inappropriate’ content.

By: Martin Leclair

Martin Leclair — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:01:14 +0000

Weird Idea.

By: null

null — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:41:12 +0000

Errr… nope. This is only useful to the casual user, never expected to replace proper server technology. A clear example of the potential uses for this is facebook or similar services. For certain you will use facebook or similar to store and share most of your albums, but I’m pretty sure that no one uploads ALL his/her pictures to facebook, for obvious privacy concerns. Yet if the average user want to share some of those, it has to rely in e-mail, or some kind of half assed service embedded in a IM client or similar. In practice, no real control of your data and not the best tool for the job. With something like Unite you setup a photo sharing session for a half hour and send the link for the people you want to receive the pics and thats it. Pretty much hassle free

About the ISP issues, there is nothing in Unite that you can’t do with existing technologies. If a user abuses of the ISP by indiscriminately sharing stuff and providing services that it shouldn’t is more likely he or she is doing that already with a system service based product like apache or IIS.

If sharing services in unite are limited to oneself and a small circle of friends\family that should falls into fair use policy, but I might be wrong.

By: B James

B James — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:48:16 +0000

Great new reason for ISPs to block more types of inbound traffic to consumer internet connections, bandwidth metering, and we will not even touch on the subject of security… Fun times ahead…

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