Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth
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Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth
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#2archive.org feels like an irreplaceable treasure, the Wayback Machine alone is a time capsule of our digital history.
I donate to them monthly and know a lot of other people do as well, so I don't worry much about their financial stability. I'm more worried about external pressures taking content down. I hope the data is backed up six ways to sunday, and that somewhere there's a plan to make it all accessible if Internet Archive can't continue to play the role it does.
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#3I'm really surprised they don't use more CDN for this. Anyone know the reason why it isn't served by something like cloudflare?
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#4I'm really surprised they don't use more CDN for this. Anyone know the reason why it isn't served by something like cloudflare?
It could be philosophical
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#5I'm really surprised they don't use more CDN for this. Anyone know the reason why it isn't served by something like cloudflare?
Please don't make the whole internet basically cloudflare. they've banned my VPN endpoint (Hetzner server) and as a result a huge chunk of websites already don't work for me despite me having done nothing wrong. I've heard reports of Tor users being restricted as well.
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#7I have revoked my donations until they close their pirate library. Sorry but let's call a spade a spade. They admit:
> multiple readers can access a digital book simultaneously
with the only caveat being it is borrowed for two weeks but let's face it, most value of a book comes from its first reading -- and what stops you from "borrowing" it again, anyways.
It's been a gigantic disappointment for me to see them do this and not back but try to placate the authors with weasel words and an opt out.
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#8I have revoked my donations until they close their pirate library. Sorry but let's call a spade a spade. They admit: > multiple readers can access a digital book simultaneously with the only caveat being it is borrowed for two weeks but let's face it, most value of a book comes from its first reading -- and what stops you from "borrowing" it again, anyways. It's been a gigantic disappointment for me to see them do th…
I’m sorry to hear this. I will make an additional donation on your behalf. I can appreciate how authors feel, but they must also realize copyright laws are asymmetrical (tilted heavily towards copyright owners) and in these times, many have no access to their local public library. They are essentially robbed of access to the book materials their tax dollars (which pays an author) have paid for during this time.
It’s been a gigantic disappointment to see authors respond negatively to this effort (considering this once-in-a-century event), and I will never buy a book again from one of these authors.
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#9The wayback machine has been essential through COVID as many government just publish the numbers and data "of the day" and the only way to compare to the day before is to look at IA.
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#10I'm really surprised they don't use more CDN for this. Anyone know the reason why it isn't served by something like cloudflare?
At the bandwidth levels they are using they would need to use Cloudflare Enterprise, and in my experience that is way more expensive than other CDN providers.
Also, since archive.org has so much content, the caching ratio is going to be very bad and kill CDN efficiency while still requiring lots of direct bandwidth. Cheap direct bandwidth in their case looks best(which is what they seem to be doing).