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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ibnanv" data-source="post: 18175288" data-attributes="member: 218596">                                             <img src="http://media.bestofmicro.com/F/3/490431/gallery/browser-illustration_w_600.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />BitTorrent,  the company behind file-sharing tools such as BitTorrent, uTorrent  (acquired) and BitTorrent Sync, launched the beta version of its  peer-to-peer browser, Maelstrom. Maelstrom  is a browser based on Chromium that allows websites to work over the  BitTorrent protocol and be hosted by peers, without any servers needed.  The alpha version of the browser  was released in December 2014, and since then over 10,000 developers and  3,500 publishers have signed up to work with the platform. Although you  had to receive an invitation for the alpha version, the beta version is  now public which means even more people can try out the browser. Right  now the browser only works on Windows, but the Mac version is "coming  soon."  The reason Maelstrom is a fork of  Chromium is because the browser can still deliver all the web pages on  the Internet, just like all the other browsers. However, it can also  access these torrent-powered websites that are hosted on people's PCs.  Therefore, it's like Chrome, but with the ability to also load  torrent-based websites.  The idea is that eventually,  popular websites could load even faster than sites that are hosted on  centralized servers. The more people "seed" a website, the higher the  chance one of those seeds would be closer to you. Then the website could  be delivered faster than it would be if it had to come from some other  country or region where the website you're trying to access is hosted.   For sites that might not be  popular enough for the P2P model to work well, it should be possible to  use a mix of servers and regular peers to offer a good experience to  their visitors. This way the servers ensure that there's always a strong  "seed" for the website within a group of peers supporting the website,  which ensures reliability. At the same time, the extra peers can still  improve the speed of access for those who may be closer to another peer  rather than the server.  Because the more peers share a  torrent-based site, the faster that site becomes, server overload  problems could be assuaged for popular web pages or sites. With the  centralized server model, if too many people visit a certain site and  the IT administrators weren't prepared for that kind of traffic, the  server could become overwhelmed. With the torrent model, it just means  that more peers join the network because once they visit a site, they  have also downloaded that site and have become peers for that site.  Maelstrom and other such projects  that aim to make the web P2P could lead to less censorship, weaker DDoS  attacks, cheaper hosting for site owners and many other benefits.  Achieving some kind of critical mass will be important for Project  Maelstrom to take off, though, otherwise it could be left with only a  few torrent-based sites that work on it and not enough people willing to  host them.</blockquote>

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