Collanos User Forum

I would like a private server version of Workplace. One I can HOST on MY server and have clients connect to and through my server. That way I would be in control of who connects and my network would not run out of supers or bandwith. The clients in my group would connect to my collanos server and we would have our own private network.

Scott

We will offer something in this direction. A new service will be rolled out early next year and be part of our premium offering.

It is important to differentiate between the "content"  and "communications" dimensions.

From a content perspective, we will offer an (optional) "permanent peer" service that you can subscribe to. This will essentially give you an additional ISP-hosted and always-on permanent peer, which you can control. The permanent peer (PP) will boost and almost guarantee replication between teams members, because it is a node that is always available and sits near the "big bandwidth pipes" of the ISP. Members can be traveling or otherwise offline, and the PP will act like yet another member, storing all changes. As soon as members get online, they will get updated by the PP.

From a communications perspective it is slightly different. Collanos uses a number of super peers to run its P2P infrastructure. Rendezvous super peers manage the presence of Workplace peers, and Relay super peers help route traffic for peers that sit behind firewalls and NAT's. This infrastructure is (and needs to be) an interconnected super peer mesh. It can not be "separated" into dedicated "this is my server" nodes. Still, our goal is to allocate higher-priority connectivity to to our premium users. Very likely this will happen by dynamically assigning (similar to a load balancing approach) the "best" (free, not-loaded, high bandwidth) super peers to premium users.

The details of the offering are not worked out yet. There is no more information available at this stage. Just stay tuned for more.