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          <h1>STF</h1><h2>Distributed Object Storage Made Easy!</h2>
          <p>Use commodity hardware/software to build your own scalable object storage!</p>
          <p><a class="btn primary large" href="/faq.html">Learn more &raquo;</a></p>
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            <h2>What is STF?</h2>
            <p>STF is a simple, yet very scalable distribute storage system.</p>
            <p>STF powers sites like <a href="http://blog.livedoor.com">livedoor Blog</a>, <a href="http://tou.ch">loctouch</a> and many more, serving gigabytes after gigabytes of data. On one such system, it's serving 400Mbps of image at peak hours without a hitch.</p>
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            <h2>GET STF!</h2>
            <p>STF is <a href="https://github.com/stf-storage/">available from github</a>. You will also need an HTTP server capable of handling X-Reproxy-URL, a mysql server, and backend storage server(s). <a href="/setup.html">Read the setup guide for more details</a></p>
            <p><a class="btn" href="download.html">Download&raquo;</a></p>
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