{"id":3499,"date":"2012-03-20T03:35:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T08:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3499"},"modified":"2014-01-12T15:02:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T21:02:57","slug":"low-orbit-servers-or-a-pirate-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3499","title":{"rendered":"Low-Orbit Servers? Or A Pirate Prank?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to experiment with sending out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air,\u201d wrote \u201cMrSpock\u201d on the Pirate Bay blog. \u201cThis way our machines will have to be shot down with aeroplanes in order to shut down the system. We\u2019re just starting, so we haven\u2019t figured everything out yet. But we can\u2019t limit ourselves to hosting things just on land anymore.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/2012\/03\/19\/low-orbit-servers-or-a-pirate-prank\/\">Low-Orbit Servers? Or A Pirate Prank? \u00bb Data Center Knowledge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the only true implementation of cloud computing &#8212; the servers are literally in the clouds.\u00a0 Exchanging torrents or magnet links is a relatively low bandwidth operation.\u00a0 There really could be something to this scheme but I would think doing it with satellites would be better.\u00a0 Transmitters and servers can use a lot of power.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Pirate Bay said it was experimenting with using GPS to control servers using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/\">Raspberry Pi<\/a>, a credit-card sized Linux computer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Raspberry Pi servers aren&#8217;t going to be able to handle any kind of web load.\u00a0 They should consider some kind of broadcast system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to experiment with sending out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air,\u201d wrote \u201cMrSpock\u201d on the Pirate Bay blog. \u201cThis way our machines will have to be shot down with aeroplanes in order &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3499\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[67,555,512],"class_list":["post-3499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-cloud-computing","tag-pirate-bay","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12195,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions\/12195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}