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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. Oh man... by Botchka · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Here comes the test in....5.....4.....3.....

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  2. lets see. by holzp · · Score: 0, Redundant

    is freecache freecached? here comes the first test!

  3. Slashdot cache by aeiz · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Slashdot should have their own caching system that automatically creates a cache of whatever website is being posted.

  4. It's recursive! by Grayden · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In case Freecache gets oveloaded, here's a Freecache link to Freeca... errr... hmmmm....

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  5. Re:Alternative solution by SirDaShadow · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Create a file format that is basically just the web page plus dependent files tar'd and gzip'd

    In IE: File->Save As->File of Type: Web archive, single file (mht)