Coral P2P Cache Enters Public Beta 254
Eloquence writes "infoAnarchy reports that Coral, a peer-to-peer webcaching system, has gone into public beta. Currently the Coral node network is hosted on Planet-Lab, a large scale distributed research network of 400 servers. You can use Coral right now by appending "nyud.net:8090" to a hostname. View Slashdot through Coral. Is this the end of the Slashdot effect?"
files (Score:3, Interesting)
well apparently all html content, including files, will be cached. this is a great way to get around downloading from snail-pace sites, (although i will be checking md5sums)
Usefulness (Score:1, Interesting)
Hosting companies'll hate this.... (Score:3, Interesting)
Also a proxy... (Score:4, Interesting)
me thinks not P2P (Score:2, Interesting)
Seems to be broken (Score:2, Interesting)
It's turtles all the way down...
That's very cool. (Score:1, Interesting)
Only the top page? (Score:5, Interesting)
Work for CmdrTaco (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:In case Coral gets slashdotted (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Google (Score:1, Interesting)
I can understand back in the day where a 300MHz computer was expensive; and I can understand why a 128K hosted-at-home site won't survive one. But c'mon, guys - in this day of fast CPUs and cheap bandwidth, how can your servers _not_ handle a few more users. Is everyone using .NET or Java bloat to make up for the advances in hardware over the years?
PS: Yes, i've survived a slashdotting, with 300MHz sparcs. No, it wasn't a big deal. A much bigger event was a nationwide radio show that had its peak traffic concentrated over 2-5 minutes, unlike /.'s gradual half-hour of increased traffic. The Howard Stern effect (if he mentiones sex) and the National Public Radio effect (if its an interesting story) each put the /. effect to shame over 1-minute timeframes.
Definitely interesting idea... (Score:2, Interesting)
Although I agree with others, it doesn't really compare to FreeCache. I still wonder why that never got much attention. It's an insanely great idea. Ah well. Between that, Corla, and BitTorrent, you never have to worry about /.'ing again when you submit your tiny personal site.
In other news (for the morons who continue posting and whining), you can still remove the it prefix from the /. URL, removing the fugly colour scheme. And there was much rejoicing in the land.
(-:Stephonovich:-)
Hmmm... wondering if I could use this commercially (Score:3, Interesting)
What I'm thinking is that at work I run a multi-server site that gets massively bogged down for short periods when it tries to handle upwards of 35,000 concurrent sessions. Bandwidth is not the problem, the application is, and it can't be rewritten for reasons that piss me off and I have no budget for more servers and no management support to run a static cached version of the site.
So I was wondering if it was possible to have the site automatically direct visitors to the Coralized URL when the site load gets too high. Either a manual change or an automatic one would be ok. I have some ideas on how this could be done using a failover server config on our ServerIron. Possibly a router config can also do this, though we don't run our own router since it's at a colocation facility. Worst case scenario is I can edit the home page to redirect to Coral when the load gets high.
Are there any other Slashdotters looking to use Coral in similar ways? If you have any ideas to share I'd be all ears.
Re:In case Coral gets slashdotted (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm not a native speaker though, so ymmv.
Whoah! (Score:1, Interesting)
http://nyud.net.nyud.net.nyud.net.nyud.net.nyud.n
Hackable? (Score:3, Interesting)
Regards,
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Re:Hackable? (Score:3, Interesting)
SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.5p1 via: SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.5p1 216.165.109.81:8090 (CoralWebPrx/0.1 (See http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/))
accept-ranges
connection: close
That definitely doesn't look too good, security-wise, when you can get access to inside services through their proxy.
Regards,
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*Art
Re:Also a proxy... (Score:2, Interesting)