mariuslien / filestorageserver

File storage server

This is a project I made when I questioned myself how applications like Facebook and Instagram store all the images. Because they can't store all the images on 1 server, so how do they handle all the files?. My solution works by running this server application on all the servers that is going to store the files. Then i have a database that contains information about each file and which server it can be retrieved.

The protocol

You need to get the path or ID, of the file by connecting to the database in your own client.

GET

To get a file by ID you can use the following example:

CLIENT: GET 1
SERVER: (bytes)

To get a file by PATH you can use:

CLIENT: GET C:\Users\Server\Documents\storage\0.dat
SERVER: (bytes)

UPLOAD

To upload a password secured file to the server you can use:

CLIENT: UPLOAD <password>
CLIENT: (bytes)
SERVER: OK File is now uploaded

To upload a file to the server without a password you can use:

CLIENT: UPLOAD
CLIENT: (bytes)
SERVER: OK File is now uploaded