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alternative: Coral content distribution network

Use CoralCDN instead of FreeCache. It works similarly. For details, see http://www.coralcdn.org

Posted by: Ahmad Gharbeia

Re: Coral for mostly small files?

thanks, i'll have to remember that. i think there was a small window between freecache and other file hosting sites like rapidshare.de and megaupload.com . luckily its now easier to find such hosts...

Posted by: compn

Re: Coral for mostly small files?

CoBlitz service in PlanetLab (CoDeeN) now do the similar thing as FreeCache did in the past - they cache large files of unlimited size. Distinctly, they distribute every file to many nodes and collect...

Posted by: AlexeyPetrov

Coral for mostly small files?

the whole point was to cache large files and save the original host, coral seems to be better for html and smaller files. anyways, freecache was great while it was around and hopefully coral will c...

Posted by: compn

Re: freecache a dead horse now?

the coral guys are up for the redirect, so prepending freecache.org on a URL should work again. The also changed how they handle files larger than 50MB by just redirecting back to the original sou...

Posted by: brewster

Re: freecache a dead horse now?

Freecache is shelved for now. We have not installed the right redirects, but yes, it is being shelved. We did not have a good proposition or mature enough tool to attract other freecache sites. ...

Posted by: brewster

Re: freecache a dead horse now?

As I understand it, Freecache is an experimental service, and it's staffed largely by volunteers right now. So that's why nobody is necessarily around to help answer questions on it, unlike, say, the ...

Posted by: simon c

freecache a dead horse now?

the service has been down for over a week, and there has been no response to the few posts made in that time by whomever may be in charge. is it safe to assume that freecache is no more? were you g...

Posted by: narial

Is the server down again?

Why did the status page offline?

Posted by: OzLeIsrael

Re: alternative to freecache

Corel doesn't support files larger than 50mb

Posted by: FerragoJas

alternative to freecache

People not happy with Freecache might take a look at Coral. Its similar in that its a network of web caches that anyone can utilize by modifying the url...

Posted by: akb

Re: FreeCache down again?

Seems it is down again, any news or update?

Posted by: dj_goku

FreeCache down again?

Freecache.org doesn't seem to respond, and the status page shows that no files have been accessed in the last 24hrs.

Posted by: FerragoJas

Coral vs FreeCache

Coral: limits cached files to 50 megs FreeCache: doesn't seem to have a limit other than the space a mirror chooses to reserve Coral: tries to mirror sites by encoding the real hostname in the coral...

Posted by: sandymac

Similar to Coral from New York University

This project seems very much like the Coral project from New York University, though theirs is available a bit more of the time. Is there any interaction between freecache and that project? http...

Posted by: sbonds

Re: freecache vs. bittorrent

I think that if a bittorrent could be set up to have all of the freecache mirrors/downloaders all being tracked by the tracker, then having a person download only from the people who they are closest ...

Posted by: BoredNL

Re: Down Again?

Thanks for all of your work on this, Brak!

Posted by: Ben Burch

Re: Down Again?

Mmm... should be better again. It will go down again tomorrow for about an hour.

Posted by: Brak

Down Again?

It seems that freecache is dead again, does anybody know what's going on here?

Posted by: BenFranske

Seems to be up now.

I'm seeing indications in my log files that the cache is again functioning!

Posted by: Ben Burch

Re: Freecache Dead? Whats happening?

Yeah - what IS happening? This was an EXTREMELY valuable service for free music advocates. Has ANYBODY got any information about the Freecache project? It was absolutely THE solution to a large subse...

Posted by: thb

Re: Freecache Dead? Whats happening?

I am betting that the folks who were caching illegal porn content (bestiality, child porn) ruined this for the rest of us. :-( All *I* want to cache are political talk radio show archives.

Posted by: Ben Burch

Freecache Dead? Whats happening?

Been down for a while... have people forgotten about it?

Posted by: FerragoJas

Re: Help for Mac Os X user

I am always maxed out with my dialup 56k, nothing will speed me up anymore, downloading at 5 k to 10k sometimes.

Posted by: davidlaska

System does not seem to be up at all...

I know what the log entries look like when freecache is doing its thing, and for at least the last few days, it hasn't been...

Posted by: Ben Burch

How do you know?

I have put a couple large files on my site with http://freecache.org infront of the links, but my traffic is really high. How do I know if its being cached?

Posted by: Hadriel

Still no cache that I can see

Hi, For a while now I have my files linked through http://freecache.org/http://myurl.com/file.wmv and I do not see any of them here in the 'detailed status' page. I see from the post below this that ...

Posted by: Lenny23

%3A works, but %3a does not in freecache links

%3A works, but %3a does not in freecache links for example this would work, http://freecache.org/http%3A//mysite.com/myfile.zip but this would not: http://freecache.org/http%3a//mysite.com/myfi...

Posted by: jimmyD

Re: Two questions

If your .asx files are over 5MB, it will cache them. Otherwise, I think .asx files are generally just pointers to a server that will stream data for the users. If you want to use Freecache, let your u...

Posted by: ahaning

Re: Help for Mac Os X user

If you're wanting to DOWNLOAD much faster from someone else, Freecache won't help you at all. What you could do is to write to the person hosting the file and suggest that they use Freecache by pre...

Posted by: ahaning

Two questions

Firstly, I'd like to know if this service would support .asx files, and if they'd work properly. Secondly- I tried ussing the url http://freecache.org to preface all my large video links and I stil...

Posted by: Lenny23

Re: Help for Mac Os X user

Hello again! I fear I must have misunderstoof but I did go under the help section and all I thought it was saying was loads of cgi stuff which I did not quite understand. I shall look into this and ho...

Posted by: globalmouse

Re: Help for Mac Os X user

> server on it and subsequently download free > cache afterwards. I am all new to this perl, > cgi-bin language (sorry to all you techies > out there! I am a half-nerd) You probably did not unde...

Posted by: dj1yfk

Re: WMV files

Yes, of course.

Posted by: dj1yfk

Re: How to get cached?

I think there's a lot of confusion on how Freecache works. Perhaps Ralf (the coder) could write up a mini-FAQ for us that we could put front and center on the Freecache page. I've seen a lot of peo...

Posted by: simon c

Re: How to get cached?

The docs say all you do is add freecache.org/ before your url, that's a simplicity that seems logical. And the project can't really be abused as its goal is to spread out bandwidth regardless of cont...

Posted by: akb

Re: How to get cached?

But it doesnt seem logical that there's no link to simply add the content. I mean, so many people could be abusing that feature.

Posted by: Paulius_G

Re: How to get cached?

Maybe there's a threshold for number of downloads.

Posted by: akb

Re: How to get cached?

already a few weeks now..

Posted by: Paulius_G

Re: How to get cached?

It takes a certain amount of time and requests before the caches pick up your content.

Posted by: akb

Re: How to get cached?

Uhhh.... But what it does is that it downloads directly from my server. And because the server is on same network as me (domain name is put in windows hosts) the download was clocked at 15802kbps for ...

Posted by: Paulius_G

Help for Mac Os X user

hi! I am new to free cache, Mac os X server and all. After doing some research on the net, I realise that my Mac OS X already has pre-installed apache on it and I can run a server on it and subsequent...

Posted by: globalmouse

Not being cached?

How do I know that my files are being cached? I added http://freecache.org/ to my files, but I don't see any difference and I don't see my files listed the detailed status or content pages on this arc...

Posted by: AllKnightAccess

Great idea!

Thanks for this, it's a great service and finally gives me something to do with the 1.4TB/month of bandwidth I wouldn't actually use otherwise.

Posted by: sourceo

Re: A simpler method

The exact link for the Javascript and the onload() mod needed to fully enable all large downloads as freecache links can be found at http://onionnetworks.com/ocn/ocn-example.php

Posted by: mrG

Re: when caching start to get to action?

Do some math; a 6.5MB file downloaded 500 times would be 3250MB. So, your file would appear to be cached, and cached queries (savings) are accounting for ~85% of your downloads.

Posted by: Guspaz

Re: Hosted Content

Registered users of the Internet Archive can delete files from FreeCache system-wide. Use the Remove Content link, featured in the upper ...

Posted by: Ralf Muehlen

Hosted Content

I've recently put up a freecache mirror, however recently it's begun to serve porn - beastiality nontheless.. I understand the concept of a free system and whatnot.. but should there not be some sort ...

Posted by: sHORTYWZ

Re: How to get cached?

The link works fine. Clocked the download at 35 KB/s.

Posted by: giantkicks.com

Re: mirror propagation heurstics

Yes. I look like you are correct. I see the same behavior, but still I am not 100% sure.

Posted by: gilco