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The Coral Content Distribution Network
- AgLiAn 13y agoTime out.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- jaggederest 13y agoNote that they don't cache anything over ~50mb, and it's a relatively small cache (~4GB nodes, cleared LRU first), in addition to only revalidating every 5 minutes. http://wiki.coralcdn.org/faq.html http://wiki.coralcdn.org/faq.html So don't use it for big files or anything that changes more than every 5 minutes.
- sspiff 13y agoUseful to know, but it's still an easy and efficient way to reduce load from static elements.
- consultant23522 13y agoIt's particularly useful when an article or something you want to read gets slashdotted.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoWhy don't forums like Hacker News, Reddit, etc. build this into their submission process, so the article/page is cached upon submission, and readers are directed straight to the cached copy?
- X4 13y agobump
- marcamillion 13y agoIsn't this very old? I am sure I stumbled upon this while doing some research on a CDN project I was interested in about 5-years ago. I would assume that CDN technology has progressed significantly since then. The impression I got at the time, was that it wasn't maintained - as well as I would have liked. I could be mistaken, but that was the impression I got a few years ago.
- kseistrup 13y agoFrom the frontpage: »CoralCDN has been continuously operated since March 2004, running on 300-400 servers on the PlanetLab testbed, spread worldwide. As of 2011, it receives 25-50 million requests per day from a few million unique clients.« In the beginning you had to add .nyud.net:8080 but it changed to the more convenient .nyud.net along the way.
- hrjet 13y agoFrom their overview page: "20 Aug 2012: We're still here! While active development has been stopped for a while, we continue to operate CoralCDN as an open, free service. It's now been running continuously for more than 8 years (since March 2004), and continues to get a few million users per day at last check. Enjoy continuing to use the service!"
- ibotty 13y agoit is unmaintained. to quote a mail from january 2012 (the maybe twentieth latest mail in the -dev mailing list): > CoralCDN is basically a "one-person job", and I never got around to > building a great monitoring-and-notification system. > In this particular > case, I didn't have as great access to email as I usually do.
- StavrosK 13y agoI thought everyone knew about this? I use it for mirrors when a site looks like it's going to go down. Just append .nyud.net to the domain and it gets cached.
- instakill 13y agoNeat trick!
- sspiff 13y agoSame here. CoralCDN has been around for ages, I've used it to auto-mirror images and other static content from sites to reduce bandwidth consumption. Works really well.
- lotsofcows 13y agoAnd to grab US only content from the UK. Ironically, it's usually BBC content...
- _prometheus 13y agoCoralCDN is old an unmaintained. For the new hotness (web only), try https://peercdn.com/ https://peercdn.com/ :)
- sspiff 13y agoThis requires Javascript though, and its operation is way more complicated. It depends on peer-to-peer delivery, which is pretty hard when most users are behind NAT'ed routers and proxies. Furthermore, you need quite a few concurrent users requesting the same resources before it will even start using this CDN. Finally, it's "currently in private beta", which means it's relatively untested in the real world, and not open like Coral at all. I think there's just no comparing the two.
- hrjet 13y agoIt would be nice to have a dropin JS library for CoralCDN too.
- draugadrotten 13y agocoralcdn.org is blocked by HR policies where I work; thus I would recommend against using it for business purposes.
- jakub_g 13y agoSame for me, both this domain and nyud.net are blocked because they're classified as proxies.
- annnnd 13y agoI am quite sure the proper way to resolve this problem would be to change the said policies.
- geargrinder 13y agoIt is also blocked by the "Low" setting of the OpenDNS content filter, a fairly popular service and setting.
- eli 13y agoWell, you can use it to trivially get around all other blocks. Points more to the futility of trying to block "bad" sites name by name than anything else.
- dalys 13y agoFor some reason the DNS servers my Swedish ISP provides seems to ignore/block all lookups for anything containing nyud.net. I have never encountered anything at all being blocked before with my ISP, so it seems a bit strange. Too bad if other ISPs also are blocking CoralCDN. I tried Googles DNS server (8.8.8.8) and everything works fine with that.
- progx 13y agoWho pay all the servers? Or how can anybody contribute?
- delinka 13y agoAnd don't forget, if you're outside the US, appending their CDN domain to yours brings your static content (and the browsing trails of your users) silently into US jurisdiction. Or at least that's the DHS and FBI interpretation of the law with respect to .com, .org, .net
- skrebbel 13y agoBrowsing trails, I see that. But content? Anyone can make a .net domain and mirror non-US content on it. Does that give DHS/FBI any legal power over said content? Not over the original, at least.
- unknownian 13y ago.org is not controlled by Verisign so it's harder for them to take it down. Also they can't control the content, just the domain.
- xr09 13y agoAnd now I know about this? I should hit me in the face.
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- sam152 13y agoGreat project. For anyone interested in serving up static resources seamlessly, you can use something like the following in an Apache config: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^CoralWebPrx RewriteRule "\.(png|jpg|css|js)$" http://%{HTTP_HOST}.nyud.net%{REQUEST_URI} [L] </IfModule> I wonder if this can be used in any interesting ways as a drop-in performance enhancement. Using it as an automatic domain sharding solution might be viable?
- lnanek2 13y agoIt hasn't been very fast or reliable the few times I tried it. I'd rather pay for a decent offering.
- achalkley 13y agoWhat the heck is that "Illuminati" thing at the bottom of the page mean?
- __alexs 13y agohttp://web.archive.org/web/20100723133654/http://illuminati.coralcdn.org/ http://web.archive.org/web/20100723133654/http://illuminati....