Coral
Coral is a distribution network meant to help distribute the load of a
commonly-accessed site. Anyone who reads Slashdot is familiar with
the effect of a slashdotting, when tens or hundreds of thousands of
users hit a website all at once, pounding its servers and destroying
its internet connexion. Well, Coral fixes that: instead of linking to
http://foo.net/, link to
http://foo.net.nyud.net:8090/.
So if anyone likes this blog enough to forward one of my pieces to Slashdot or elsewhere, do be kind enough to use the link provided☺
1 February 2018: updated URL & blog