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daknob / TorPaste

A Pastebin for Tor
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Multiple Backends #15

Open daknob opened 8 years ago

daknob commented 8 years ago

Currently TorPaste supports a single backend, and that is the local (or mounted) filesystem. Alternatives can include (Document) Databases, Object Stores, etc.

Currently TorPaste can be easily set up in a HA Environment since it does not rely on a single component and more web servers can be started at will. In addition to that, a distributed filesystem can solve the backend problem.

Therefore, ideally, we'd want to implement HA-ready solutions first.

Ideas for backends

daknob commented 8 years ago

I just pushed some code that makes it very easy to add new backends. In the folder /backends there's an example.py file which you can start editing to create the backend of your choosing. The filesystem.py backend is already implemented and you can use it as an example. I will be updating the main issue here with some suggestions, however feel free to add your own.

daknob commented 8 years ago

Please note: currently only the filesystem backend is active since this is the only one. As soon as more are available, and hopefully after Issue #10 has been closed, I will add some code to allow the user to select the backend they want.