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Freecache

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the building-a-better-mousetrap dept.

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."

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  1. Beta! by dacarr · · Score: 5, Informative

    I should point out that Freecache is in beta mode. By coincidence, this posting on Slashdot here is an interesting way of working out bugs.

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  2. ... execpt by laursen · · Score: 5, Informative
    They have been offline for AGES due to abuse ...

    As their status page explains...

  3. Re:Not solution to slashdot effect, but still grea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think they're looking more for serving big files, not html and inline images. Smallest file size is 5mb.

  4. Re:Not solution to slashdot effect by lxdbxr · · Score: 5, Informative
    Also only works for large files unless this FAQ is out of date:
    What files are being served by FreeCache?

    FreeCache can only serve files that are on a web site. If the link to a file on that web site goes away, so will the file in the FreeCaches. Also, there is a minimum size requirement. We don't bother with files smaller than 5MB, as the saved bandwidth does not outweight the protocol overhead in those cases.

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  5. Re:Alternative solution by persaud · · Score: 5, Informative

    See Bug 40873 and Bug 18764. Summary is that Thunderbird (mail) lets you view .mht but the browser does not. And there's no way to save .mht with Mozilla.