Coralize This!

Don’t you hate it when you visit a Web site that is doing something really cool or new only to be turned away because everybody else in North America is trying to visit the Web site at the same time you are? I know I do. With the Coralize extension for Firefox, you won’t have to find yourself waiting in line any longer.

This “>Coral extension allows you to “Coralize this page” or “Coralize this link” by right-clicking a page and/or link. So what is all this Coral stuff about? Here is some information from the Coral Content Distribution Network Web site.

Coral is peer-to-peer content distribution network, comprised of a world-wide network of web proxies and name servers. It allows a user to run a web site that offers high performance and meets huge demand, all for the price of a $50/month cable modem.

Publishing through Coral is as simple as appending a short string to the host name of objects’ URLs; a peer-to-peer DNS layer transparently redirects browsers to participating caching proxies, which in turn cooperate to minimize load on the source web server. Sites that run Coral automatically replicate content as a side effect of users accessing it, improving its availability. Using modern peer-to-peer indexing techniques, Coral will efficiently find a cached object if it exists anywhere in the network, requiring that it use the origin server only to initially fetch the object once.

Don’t be left in the dark any longer. The Coralize Firefox extension is for versions 0.7 and beyond. If you want to give it a shot and try it out, you can do so by visiting this link.

[tags]firefox,extensions,distribution,coral[/tags]