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How to Publish Websites in Freenet

The basics

Windows Users

David McNab has written an excellent tool called FreeWeb which you can use to insert a website into Freenet automatically.

Linux Users

David has also written a set of command line tools called FCPTools.





Benefits

Putting anonymity aside there are several benefits in publishing websites into Freenet (known as FreeSites).

First and foremost there is no need to worry about banner ads and size limits. Availability and uptime are proportional to the popularity of the FreeSite because the information in Freenet is being mirrored intelligently and as long as there is enough demand the site will be widely available.

Also, because of the sophisticated distribution mechanisms inherent in Freenet the access to the FreeSites will gradually improve and there are good chances that with time a FreeSite will load faster than an identical website in the conventional internet. To see how and why this works you can look at the in-depth information in the Papers and Architecture sections.