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Coral P2P Cache Enters Public Beta

Posted by timothy on from the will-it-scale dept.

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?"

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  1. Hosting companies'll hate this.... by rsilvergun · · Score: 3, Interesting

    as will ISPs if it takes off. Right now with bandwidth usage centralized it's pretty easy to bill for it. If you decentralize it with p2p via millions of always on unmetered clients/servers it gets hard, if not impossible. I kinda hope it doesn't take off, since if it does it could end unmetered Internet access...

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  2. Also a proxy... by jelevy01 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This would also by pass any restricted sites your company may be blocking...

  3. Only the top page? by News+for+nerds · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://slashdot.org.nyud.net:8090/ caches only the /. homepage. Doesn't it analyze hyperlinks?

  4. Work for CmdrTaco by Dreadlord · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Goatse-links trolls will be back, with slashcode showing the same domain for every link, I think CmdrTaco has some work to do now.

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