Tip: Coral CDN
Jens Meiert, April 24, 2008 / July 6, 2008.
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Quick tip for low-budget sites targeting more than one country or language and not using a server farm: Coral CDN, a free content distribution network. To use it just append “.nyud.net” to the host name of absolute URIs to images, style sheets, and what you’d enjoy as well, as in “http://example.ms.nyud.net/stylesheet”.
Please note that this is a “constrained” tip: I’m still testing this CDN on WHWS, but it appears to help a lot with the large amount of international visitors and I’m simply curious about additional feedback and former experience with Coral (admittedly, I’ve been lazy with investigation). So instead of discovering my original Coral chirp maybe share my happiness that there’s finally another tip, think of you beating another YSlow criterion, and add your thoughts 
Update (May 22, 2008)
I now decided to stop using Coral as it continued to be quite slow and since some of their CDN servers are definitely unreliable, ultimately doing harm. I’m still open for the general idea though, and apart from trying other systems as well I’m all the more appreciating any experiences you had.
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Comments
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On April 25, 9:10 CEST, MiSc said:
I don’t quite get it yet.
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On April 25, 16:27 CEST, Dave said:
I used to read slashdot.org, and Coral cache would often be used on articles slashdot linked to. Since there were so many slashdot readers, the cache was needed to help keep the linked article available. It was always reliable as long as Coral was able to get to the linked article page and download it to the Coral servers before the linked article’s server succumbed to the huge number of visitors.
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On April 27, 18:58 CEST, Jens Meiert said:
MiSc, what don’t you get exactly?
Dave, right, these are moments where most people will just run for a CDN
