I have been testing out Coral recently which is a distributed “peer-to-peer content distribution network”. By adding an extension (.nyud.net:8090) to your site it will cach it in servers located near you. So if your site/content is cached all over the world it is more accessable in the event of a Slashdotting or similar traffic surge. You can access the L.A.S. Coral version here:

http://cached.localareasecurity.com

http://www.localareasecurity.com.nyud.net:8090

(Both links point to the same place. . .)

As a “fun fact” if you look at the Coral stats page you will see that over a 24 hour period they transmit roughly 1700GBs of data. Which comes out to about 1.6TBs.

In conjunction with using the WordPress Staticize Reloaded plug-in you can make an already effiicient engine even faster by not causing a high load on your database server. In the past this was the weak link during the Slashdot Effect.