Freecache

TonkaTown writes "Finally the solution for slashdotting, or just the poor man's Akamai? Freecache from the Internet Archive aims to bring easy to use distributed web caching to everyone. If you've a file that you think will be popular, but far too popular for your isp's bandwidth limits, you can just serve it as http://freecache.org/http://your.site/yourfile instead of the traditional http://your.site/yourfile and Freecache will do all the heavy lifting for you. Plus your users get the advantage of swiftly pulling the file from a nearby cache rather than it creeping off your overloaded webserver."

Comments

USHERING IN A NEW ERA OF KARMA-WHORING

[akedia]

In case of Slashdotting, here's a Freecache link.

Re:USHERING IN A NEW ERA OF KARMA-WHORING

[betelgeuse-4]

It seems the original link isn't slashdotted, but yours is.

Surviving Slashdotting through Freecache

[j0keralpha]

http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id= 8764

He was apparently /.'d... and hes apologizing for the load.

Putting freecache to the test

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

http://freecache.org/http://your.site/yourfile

http://freecache.org/http://freecache.org/http://f reecache.org

seems to piss it off slightly. I wonder why...

Re:Putting freecache to the test

[Speare]

http://freecache.org/ http://freecache.org/ http://freecache.org

I'm sure he would have made a deeper recursion, but the Slashdot lameness filter was able to compress it too efficiently.

Slashdotted

[skinfitz]

The demo seems to be down.

Oh crap that was the wrong link - try this:

http://freecache.org/http://movies03.archive.org/0 /movies/LuckyStr1948_2/LuckyStr1948_2.mpg

Re:The business model is astounding...

[stratjakt]

Volume!

Re:Freec ache

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Apparently, it's pronounced "free-crash" right now...

Re:Cache owner's liability

[Anonymous Coward]

I was perusing the content in my cache and checking the detailed status page and I noticed illegal content containing videos in one of the caches I run.

Heh, wait till the guy sees what sort of stuff is on his USENET server.

Freeache?

[Henrik S. Hansen]

Did anyone else misread that as "Freeache"?

I mean, I'm all for free stuff, but an ache...?

Re:Smart!

[ozric99]

How many times have we wanted to see a website, except that it has been slashdotted and cannot see us now?

Let me guess.. you're posting this from soviet russia?

Nothing Changes

[Ironsides]

So now instead of /.ing the website we /. the Internet Archive instead.

Solution to slashdot? Shoot, we broke it.

[nsanders]

Finally the solution for slashdotting ...

Not really.. I can't access their servers now. All will tremble before the might of slashdotting!

Ironic

[osjedi]

Story is only a few minutes old and mecca of Internet caching has already been slashdotted. Maybe someone kid with an old P5 266mhz under his desk can mirror the site for us.

Re:Not solution to slashdot effect, but still grea

[caluml]

Just pad out your pages with lots of hidden text.

<!--
<?php
for ( $i = 0 ; $1 < 5000000 ; $i++ )
{
print "a";
}
?>
-->

Hey presto. All your pages are > 5MB! :)

Re:Or use Google...

[Anonymous Coward]

The problem with that is that if it's new content google won't have it yet.

Oh, come on. This is slashdot... Since when do we have to worry about getting linked to new content?

Re:Using the Wayback Machine?

[davidstrauss]

Slashdot is a news site. If you post a link to a website thats 12 days old chances are its not going to have the information you expected it to have.

You must be new here, or you would know the the news is old here.

http://www.archive.org/web/freecache.php

[snakattak]

An error occurred while loading http://www.archive.org/web/freecache.php: Timeout on server Connection was to www.archive.org at port 80

Somehow I don't think this solution will work.

Re:Using the Wayback Machine?

[anti-trojan]

Slashdot is a news site. If you post a link to a website thats 12 days old chances are its not going to have the information you expected it to have.

Bwahahahahaha (cough)(cough) bwahahahahahahhhahaaaaaaaa

Re:Not solution to slashdot effect, but still grea

[HD Webdev]

Yes, but the thing that you are not considering is that probably 75% the slashdot effect is just people looking at the link for about 5 seconds, and then closing the page and moving on the the next story.

The other 25% is us looking at a page for 5 seconds and then replying because as everyone knows here, it's much more entertaining to reply without RTFA.

Re:Not solution to slashdot effect, but still grea

[mhesseltine]

Too much code.

<!--
<?php
echo str_repeat("a", 5000000);
?>
-->

Only on /. could you find someone optimizing code that would be used to bloat web pages.

Slashdotted?!

[Anonymous Coward]

Definitely not an adequate solution, given it's current condition: slashdotted to hell.

Idiots! They should've had it cache itself first before posting this to /.