What is the Coral Content Distribution Network?

Coral is peer-to-peer content distribution network, comprised of a world-wide network of web proxies and nameservers. 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 hostname 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.

How to use Coral?

Simply use Coral’s URL:
http://www.example.com/info/ becomes http://www.example.com.nyud.net:8090/info/

What to do with Coral?

Reduce your bandwidth.  Use it for serving images for example.

Scrape/crawl search engines and other sites. Now, you shouldn’t use it for scraping even if it’s such an awesome tool. If you did it would be very naughty indeed.

You can use it as a general proxy for browsing. It has some sort of usage limit, so you might need to alternate between IP adresses. Same goes for the thing above that you shouldn’t try.

http://www.coralcdn.org/