Decentralised P2P

Hello, I am looking for Visual Basic 6.0 programmers who are interested in making a P2P file sharing network. I have started the project but have since relised that I can't do it successfully on my own. The attached image should explain it better than I could in words but basically its supposed to be decentralised. At the moment I have a BASIC prototype running which uses a php page and a mySQL database to store IPs and ports etc. If anyone is interested I can send you what i have already done and see what you think. Jason.

17 M clients would kill your database. You'd have to use SQL.

Thanks for that, should be easy to change to SQL since ive not got very far yet. Although i could work around that problem by including a cache of hosts with the installer when the client is downloaded which would take the pressure off. I was thinking along the lines of a kind of 'stack' ie that the most recent to connect would be placed at the top of the pile and when a request for online clients is queried for then only the top 20 or so would be sent back. Then if these clients are full then a list of their cache would be sent back. Dont know if that makes sence?

:wave: hi i would like to join with
i have tryed many - many p2p applications but no one is perfect.some are good but i am not satisfied.i am a average vb programer.i have website witch i am not using . if you want to host your app . i will make subdomain for this project and web space around 100 mb.

This sounds very interesting, I see you've thought it through... If you need anything written in Java, I'd like to join in.

ummm a mysql database should be able to hand any load an MS SQL database could

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,293,00.asp

Granted this is two years old but I don't see how mysql could have fallen on such hard times.

If anything you need to make sure you have the hardware to handle the load and program the app right, mysql will take care of itself