[ # ] Website Down? Try CoralCDN

/* Posted April 5th, 2008 at 8:35am */
/* Filed under Web */

Coral Distribution

Have you ever tried visiting a website only to find that it was down because it was using a crappy web host? This often happens because smaller web hosting providers often lack the hardware and bandwidth to handle large traffic at one time. Websites suddenly popularized by Slashdot (called the “slashdot effect“) or any other social bookmarking website like Digg oftentimes go down because millions of people are overloading the server with requests, kind of like an unintentional denial of service attack.

There is a web caching service called Coral Content Distribution Network that minimizes this effect by using cache proxies. From their website:

Are you tired of clicking on some link from a web portal, only to find that the website is temporarily off-line because thousands or millions of other users are also trying to access it? Does your network have a really low-bandwidth connection, such that everyone, even accessing the same web pages, suffers from slow downloads? Have you ever run a website, only to find that suddenly you get hit with a spike of thousands of requests, overloading your server and possibly causing high monthly bills? If so, CoralCDN might be your free solution for these problems!

What does this mean to you? As a user trying to access a downed website, simply append:

.nyud.net

to the hostname of any URL, and your request for that URL is handled by Coral. Try it out with our website http://www.coderetard.com.nyud.net/ or with your own. As someone running a website, consider appending the Coral suffix to your website URL before you share it with the world.