If only there were a Freenet branch that were compatible with Google's App Engine. Google allow any application to store up to 500MB of data and have very generous quotas on CPU, Bandwidth, and storage API calls. This could lead the way to many open freenet portals. Anyone could create one.
Personally, unless I were developing on this, I would rather use a portal than install and run one all the time. Then again, I don't live in China. I read that Google contributed about 17K to this project. I would think they would support this running in their engine. First off, no threads in App Engine. Also, no file system. You can get http or https requests in and out of the application though. The storage api will store large objects just fine, but large operations need to be batched into smaller calls. See http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html#Datastore I'm in no position to change Freenet, but maybe I can implement and help provide the an API that will. I have been with Java over ten years and just recently did some coding using the app engine storage. I'm all setup to work in the Java app engine environment.
