Coding In Paradise

Coral: The New York University Distribution Network: "Coral is peer-to-peer content distribution network. 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. Coral takes advantage of users' demonstrated willingness to re-distribute content they themselves consider useful. Sites that volunteer to run Coral automatically replicate content as a side effect of users accessing it. Publishing through Coral is as simple as prepending a pseudo-hostname to objects' URLs; a peer-to-peer DNS layer transparently redirects browsers to participating cache nodes, which in turn cooperate to minimize load on the source web server."