(Mostly a note-to-self)
Have you ever visited a website, only to find a page saying something like Bandwidth exceeded … Please try again later …?
This can occur when a big site refers to a small site. I remember it happening when the NY Times did a story on a brand-new gizmo named TV-B-Gone, for instance. Even without a link, boom, down it went.* There are many names for this phenomenon.
Anyway, if you come across an overloaded site that you absolutely cannot wait to see, try appending .nyud.net to the URL you want to visit; e.g., instead of example.com, try visiting example.com.nyud.net.
For more info, see The Coral Content Distribution Network. If you host your own site and fear the occasional spike in traffic, CoralCDN has ways to help (that don't depend on your visitors manually modifying the URL). Fascinating idea.
* Okay, so it wasn't all the NYT's fault. Or so they say.
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