[bfprog] High-bandwidth sites
ScratchMonkey
ScratchMonkey at MatureAsskickers.net
Wed Jun 29 15:25:45 PDT 2005
For those of you coding up sites that threaten your bandwidth bill, like
ones that generate stats sigs, consider using the Coral cache:
<http://www.coralcdn.org/>
When you display the link to copy into the client's code (eg. a sig image
link), just add ".nyud.net:8090" to the host name, and all usage will go
through their cache. This is a common practice (alas not common enough)
when posting stories to SlashDot (http://slashdot.org/) to avoid subjecting
your "victim" to the SlashDot effect and causing their site to melt down.
For instance, here's my BF2 stats sig:
<a href="http://bf2.slawed.net.nyud.net:8090/stats/44669036/"><img
src="http://bf2.slawed.net.nyud.net:8090/sig/44669036/sig.png"/></a>
Note how not only is the sig cached, but also the stats page and all the
images on it. So anyone else's sig will also benefit from the caching of
the shared images like the awards.
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