diff --git a/FAQ.md b/FAQ.md index dd69f3e8e..7d4c1b9b7 100644 --- a/FAQ.md +++ b/FAQ.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # FAQ -## If nobody watch a video, is it seeded? +## If nobody watches a video, is it seeded? Yes, the origin server always seeds videos uploaded on it through [Webseed](http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0019.html). @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ It is a BitTorrent extension that allow a server to seed a file through HTTP. It ## If a client requests each chunk of a video through HTTP, the server be overloaded! -Not really. Reverse proxy like Nginx handle very well requests of static files. In my tests it can send chunks at 10MB/s without consuming more than 5% of CPU on a very small VPS. +Not really. Reverse proxies like Nginx handle very well requests of static files. In my tests it can send chunks at 10MB/s without consuming more than 5% of CPU on a very small VPS. ## An index of all videos of the network won't be too large for small servers? @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ No, 1000000 videos will represent around 2GB on PostgreSQL. It is acceptable for WEBM, MP4 or OGV videos. -## I want to change my host or move to HTTPS, how can I do? +## I want to change my host or move to HTTPS, how can I do that? If you already have friends you need to quit them. Then, update your configuration and run `NODE_ENV=production npm run update-host` to update the torrent files. diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 5186a59da..35d53ee09 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -66,10 +66,10 @@ Want to see in action? ## Why -We can't build a FOSS video streaming alternatives to YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo... with a centralized software. One organization alone cannot have enought money to pay bandwith and video storage of its server. +We can't build a FOSS video streaming alternatives to YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo... with a centralized software. One organization alone cannot have enough money to pay bandwidth and video storage of its server. So we need to have a decentralized network (as [Diaspora](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora) for example). -But it's not enought because one video could become famous and overload the server. +But it's not enough because one video could become famous and overload the server. It's the reason why we need to use a P2P protocol to limit the server load. Thanks to [WebTorrent](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent), we can make P2P (thus bittorrent) inside the web browser right now. @@ -194,9 +194,9 @@ The following commands will upgrade the source (according to your current branch ### Development -In this mode, the server will run requests between pods more quickly, the videos duration are limited to a few seconds. +In this mode, the server will run requests between pods more quickly, the video durations are limited to a few seconds. -To develop on the server side (server files are automatically compiled when we modify them and the server restarts automatically too): +To develop on the server-side (server files are automatically compiled when we modify them and the server restarts automatically too): $ npm run dev:server @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ The API will listen on `localhost:9000` and the frontend on `localhost:3000` (wi $ npm run clean:server:test $ npm run play -Then you will can access to the three nodes at `http://localhost:900{1,2,3}` with the `root` as username and `test{1,2,3}` for the password. If you call "make friends" on `http://localhost:9002`, the pod 2 and 3 will become friends. Then if you call "make friends" on `http://localhost:9001` it will become friend with the pod 2 and 3 (check the configuration files). Then the pod will communicate with each others. If you add a video on the pod 3 you'll can see it on the pod 1 and 2 :) +Then you will get access to the three nodes at `http://localhost:900{1,2,3}` with the `root` as username and `test{1,2,3}` for the password. If you call "make friends" on `http://localhost:9002`, the pod 2 and 3 will become friends. Then if you call "make friends" on `http://localhost:9001` it will become friend with the pod 2 and 3 (check the configuration files). Then the pod will communicate with each others. If you add a video on the pod 3 you'll can see it on the pod 1 and 2 :) ### Other commands