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Is this basically Archive.org becoming a customer of Cloudflare CDN to reduce load off their servers?
by tiffanyh 6y ago
Is this basically Archive.org becoming a customer of Cloudflare CDN to reduce load off their servers?
- toomuchtodo 6y agoIt's Archive.org being provided URL telemetry for archiving public sites they have not yet found through traditional means (crawling or users submitting requests through the Wayback Save page) by a Cloudflare product. The next step would be for Cloudflare to point to Archive.org Wayback links when an origin isn't available (similar to browser extensions that point to Archive.org when sites 404 or are down, but in Cloudflare's core). Cool stuff. Thanks Cloudflare folks.
- GekkePrutser 6y agoI really doubt their customers would want that. Usually when a page is 404 it's because the company in question wants to forget about it :)
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- jedberg 6y agoYou would return the archived page for a 5xx error, not a 4xx error.
- GekkePrutser 6y agoAh I see. But this is precisely a usecase for cloudflare's own caching service. It wouldn't be fair to use archive.org's community-sponsored resources for propping up businesses which are too cheap to pay for proper IT :)
- pronoiac 6y agoWhile it's not explicitly mentioned, I think Cloudflare is providing financial support to the Internet Archive.
- FlyMoreRockets 6y agoOne would hope so. Considering the timing relative to the IA's potentially very expensive legal battle, I full expect this to be the case. Still, considering CF's anti-privacy/anti-TOR stance this is a deal with the devil. Guess I should give money directly to the IA. Considering how much value they provide, I'll do this immediately after updating this post.
- shomin 6y agoIn what ways is CF anti-privacy?
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