[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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