A heartfelt apologies to the listeners who have been without their Dragon Page fix for the last two days. I was experimenting with a novel approach to bandwidth reduction called CoralCDN. Coral sounds like a very cool product, and it works really well– unless you are listening from work.
Most IT departments block all but the most necessary ports to allow people to do their job and accesss the internet. HTTP traffic travels on port 80, so that’s always allowed. But Coral uses port 8090 to serve content. Works great as long as no one has blocked your ports, and lots of IT departments do.
So I tried it for the last two shows. Three emails today caused me to pull the plug on the experiment early. Nope, not ready for prime time. Too bad, as now I’ll have to go into the chapter I just finished and add a “Warning” section on Coral.
We now return to our regular programming, already in progress.
I thought it was just me.