Freecache 258
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."
Or use Google... (Score:4, Informative)
I trust google to be faster than these guys.
This has been mentioned before (Score:4, Informative)
Beta! (Score:5, Informative)
... execpt (Score:5, Informative)
As their status page [archive.org] explains...
Re:Not solution to slashdot effect, but still grea (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Not solution to slashdot effect (Score:5, Informative)
parent is Informative? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Alternative solution (Score:3, Informative)
Combining that with bittorrent should be relatively easy.
Of course, you'll probably have to view the result in IE, as the mozilla project hasn't quite worked out
Re:Some questions (Score:1, Informative)
1. Yes. RTFSummary. It uploads automatically when someone requests the file from them. Just change your link to http://freecache.org/http://oldurl.net.
2. Probably them. The entire internet is largely a pron/warez stash, so I'd expect a lot of the same there.
Re:Alternative solution (Score:4, Informative)
What??
Re:Some questions (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, you can request removal of a google cache [google.com], but you must have access to the reference source site to do so. Once you've requested removal, there is even a personalized status page where you can check the progress of the removal.
Re:USHERING IN A NEW ERA OF KARMA-WHORING (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Alternative solution (Score:3, Informative)
It's a FAQ (Score:3, Informative)
Can I say RTFFAQ now? :)
Re:The business model is astounding... (Score:3, Informative)
It's not a way of making money, it's a way of spending them. It's run by the Internet Archive, founded and funded by Brewster Kahle [wikipedia.org]. It's there for your free enjoyment - revel in the goodness of humanity!
Re:Alternative solution (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Alternative solution (Score:4, Informative)
You'd have to come up with a scheme like:
Content Removal (Score:2, Informative)
Yep [archive.org]
Re:Alternative solution (MHT = RFC 2557) (Score:2, Informative)
The trick with saving a page as an MHT in IE is that if the page includes any frames that are not visible (which are made visible by script that runs when the user clicks on buttons for example), IE appears to not automatically load that content, so the saved page doesn't include it. If you have a complex page, you might need to write code (or use chili kat if it's in your budget) to get an MHT created in the manner you would like.
Re:What we really need.... (Score:3, Informative)
What makes you think that www.squidserver.com always resolves to the same single squid server? Intelligent DNS resolution in conjunction with things like IP multicast and multi-homing could be used to achieve something approaching what Akamai does.
Plus, the advantage of a proper caching HTTP proxy as the "meat" of this solution means that HTTP caching rules are respected. If a site has an advertising graphic that they really need to have loaded for each user and not cached, they can express that through HTTP caching headers and "www.squidproxy.com" would be "required" to pass the request through. This way you neatly side-step the perceived legal problems Slashdot says they face when considering a similar Slashdot cache for linked-to articles. (See the FAQ.)