HowTo: Save Bandwidth using CoralCDN
Let’s face it, bandwidth is expensive. And if you have a very busy fan site, it’s quite difficult to manage your bandwidth, keeping it under your monthly threshold.
There are many ways to save bandwidth. Here at SmooveNET, we encourage our power users (see Premium under hosting) to utilize their anonymous FTP accounts to distribute their (legal) media contents. This for one frees up web server requests for large files and limits web site visitors to one download at a time. We found this to be a real bandwidth saver for our members.
Users without an anonymous FTP account are forced to host their media contents over the web server. While we do not encourage such behavior (as it bogs down the server or makes it slower), you can save your bandwidth using CoralCDN.
CoralCDN is a decentralized, self-organizing, peer-to-peer web-content distribution network. CoralCDN replicates content in proportion to the content’s popularity, regardless of the publisher’s resources—-in effect democratizing content publication. In other words, CoralCDN caches your content onto its server and distributes it for you.
All you have to do is append your URL with the following:
.nyud.net
For example, if my URL is:
http://www.smoovenet.com/MyVideo.mov
You would link the “MyVideo.mov” file as:
http://www.smoovenet.com.nyud.net/MyVideo.mov
Just to note… you may experience a delay in your test download from CoralCDN as their servers need to save a copy of your file first. Once your file has been cached, the delay should be minimal.
Try it and feel free to comment your success (or failure) below. Enjoy!
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