Are hosts compensated for providing service or penalised for not providing it?

[neo]

@voluntary

The particular use case I’m thinking of is video content that goes viral, where many thousands of people all of a sudden want to see a particular piece of content at the same time.

You “pay” in safecoin to upload the video. Its a one off charge.

@voluntary

A single host (or handful of hosts) isn’t going to be able to cope so I want to know how the MaidSafe network handles that kind of demand

This question of yours has already been answered at the time you asked it yesterday

@neo

@voluntary

Imagine hundreds of thousands of people trying to access the same video that has just gone viral… Wouldn’t it make sense for there to be (many) multiple copies of that high-demand data available?

In that case there will be a huge number supplying those chunks that make up the viral video.

Also remember that the network has 6-8 copies of each chunk stored in vaults.

When a file (vid) becomes popular then the built in network caching will be often supplying the chunks rather than getting the chunk from vaults. The more popular then the more caches that hold a copy