On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Les Orchard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/18/11 8:41 AM, Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson wrote: > > There's also the privacy goal of the FB, for which you really need the > ability to put layers of indirection between your personal IP and the rest > of the world. Pagekite, at a minimum, but the more options the better.
You can actually connect over Tor to your PageKite front-end (where-ever it is, doesn't have to be the pagekite.net service). This slows down your site quite a bit, but gives you lots of indirection and means even your front-end provider doesn't know where your origin server is. :-) If you use TLS for your PageKite tunnels and serve only a HTTPS site, both the Tor exit nodes and the PageKite front-end are completely blind. I don't think many will need this level of privacy, but it's already implemented and covers all the bases, I think. > As for the performance thing, well, just don't say anything interesting. Of course. I'm talking about sites where people might actually password-protect everything by default. FreedomBox is after all a very privacy oriented effort. For a traditional, open to the world blog, the existing cloud stuff is in many ways perfectly suitable. > The first time you get linked-to from someone like John Gruber on Daring > Fireball, your personal access to the net gets swamped. If that's a mesh > network, you probably take down everyone around you, too. A residential ISP > in the US might raise an eyebrow, too. Assuming people are sticking with clear-text HTTP (arguably a bad idea), whatever in-the-cloud help is provided (PageKite or otherwise) could also do some caching and take the top off the spike. That's on my road-map, but not high on the list because that sort of thing is always a massive source of bugs and I consider usability to be more important at this early stage. If people start hosting HTTP origin servers on cell phones, priorities could change pretty quickly. ;-) -- Bjarni R. Einarsson The Beanstalks Project ehf. Making personal web-pages fly: http://pagekite.net/ _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
