Central Computer Facility

The Central Information data center would be utilize a redundant set of clustered servers to ensure no single point of failure, with sufficient capacity to serve the needs of the community, and beyond. With sufficient resources, the Central Information network and library could supply local schools, libraries and Cafés with materials and technology generally confined to Enterprise Corporations.

Redundancy of the system and data is to be implemented in a number of ways:

1. Traditionally, in the form of clustered, mirrored servers with synchronization schedules and tape backup schedules.
2. Offsite in national and international co-located servers.
3. Over a distributed, encrypted, peer-to-peer network consisting of members graded on the amount of uptime, time participating, and peer trust.

The primary data center facility is to be located near or on the Sanctuary Project (depends on how remote Sanctuary is). Telecommunication access, particularly a high speed backbone, is necessary for the primary mainframe cluster because large amounts of data will be stored, transferred, and served. The facility would require a redundant power backup system in the event of a power outage whether run off the power grid or the Sanctuary electricity resources.

Offsite co-located servers would reside in other data centers throughout the country and/or globe providing redundancy and a centralized content distribution network for localizing content and services to other cities, countries, and projects.

A distributed peer-to-peer¹⁷ network would require participating individuals to have software installed on their personal computers that would encrypt and split the data into chunks across multiple computers. The software would also be responsible for updating with new data, transferring and combining chunks, running distributed queries across peers, and encrypting the data. Aside from the redundancy benefits it also ensures the data of Central Information is kept in the hands of those who use it, can ensure anonymity of the peers and participants, and cannot be censored by authority figures in government, religious, or corporate institutions.
 

¹ BitTorrent, Freenet, and TOR are examples of community efforts to implement anonymous distributed networks to overcome government and corporate censoring.