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Since its inception, peer-to-peer (P2P) technology has been applied for numerous distributed applications, including file sharing, distributed computing, multi-player gaming, media streaming and instant messaging. None of these applications require or assume a persistent service guarantee from the underlying P2P overlay. Yet there exists other applications like web hosting, online backup, content distribution etc., that require persistence in resource/service availability. P2P systems rely on commodity machines, voluntarily participating at the network edge. As a result, it is challenging to use P2P technology for deploying any application that requires persistent resource/service availability.

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Ahmed, R., Boutaba, R. (2014). Availability. In: Collaborative Web Hosting. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03807-0_5

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