Came upon a nice little web “thingy” today. Called Freecache. Quoting from Slashdot:

“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.”

Now the funny thing is: I just tried to visit Freecache and the site has itself been slashdotted. If thats not irony, I have no idea what is. They say that they can do the heavy lifting but if they can’t handle a single slashdot article, I have no idea how they expect to handle any high amount of traffic.

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