It happens to everybody. You want to see the Web page that is making all the
news, and once you finally get the link to go there it times out on you. You can't
see the content and you will have no idea what folks will be talking about around
the water cooler tomorrow. What is a geek to do?
The Firefox extension this time around is called Cacheout. What does it do?
Too frequently on sites such as Slashdot.org and digg.com, articles that are posted
are flooded with thousands of people trying to simultaneously access the same Web
site. Unless the article is being hosted on a provider that has the infrastructure to
support massive hits, the server essentially stops responding to any more web
requests.
The service they use to bring the Web sites back up is the Coral Content
Distribution Network. Coral is very reliable for distributing the server loads around
so that you can view a Web site that is in very high demand. Right now they are
only using Coral for the back end, but if you know of any other content distribution
networks out there, let them know.
Although the content for the Web page hasn't gone too in depth with the extension
just yet, I have high hopes for this extension in the future. Go check it out, and
never be left out of the conversation at work again.
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