Early P2P clients, such as Napster, relied on a central set ofindex servers that maintained content and user listings. Subsequent P2P implementations have migrated to a more decentralized architecture, increasing redundancy, performance, and anonymity, but making them nearly impossible to block. ...
For example, you may decide to dedicate a single drive to steam, but cache all other CDNs onto another drive; you can even set your system up to cache the content on drives dedicated to each service.Note that you can still run services on a dedicated systems with alternate IP addresses....