So I asked some I2People about it, and here's what they said. me> Is it useful for running services, like a web or database server, or only for backups? i2person> backups, you can't really run a web server through tahoe, just store files. so you can make a pseudo website, but only with html and js/client side stuff, no server side scripting i2person> and yah its slow. frankly i don't think tahoe should be used for file sharing / distributed datastore. its really more like an open source personal nas cluster, it can be used to store files on multiple disks/computers, but for mass file upload/download/sharing its just not going to scale well So it sounds suitable for Freenet, but not a live server environment like SMF.