[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox experiment & Sister project

[bertagaz at ptitcanardnoir.org]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:59:17PM -0500, Charles N Wyble wrote:
> On 06/14/2011 10:20 PM, Sébastien Lerique wrote:
> 
> >  First it can be very unstable, and
> > secondly having an asymmetrical bandwidth makes sharing of photos (and
> > other potentially large files) quite slow; and of course it can't
> > support an occasional slashdotting.
> 
> Yeah. Some degree of mitigation is available (rate limiting, caching
> etc) but if you get hit with enough bandwidth saturation, you are in
> trouble.

I guess for someone's blog or wiki, if ikiwiki is the choosen software, a
simple DNS round robin might answer this issue. Then the user would just
have to find some friends to be part of it, and rsync/upload its static
html on every IP listed in the DNS. This is for the slashdotting part only
still, for the assymetrical problem, apart pressure on ISP to provide real
symmetrical internet access, it doesn't seem there are so many solutions.

bert.