Parallel loading plugins

[Scott]

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/parrallelize/
vs
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/parallel-loading-system/

Both plugins spread your media requests across different domain names
(subdomains usually) to spread the load across servers.

Anybody use either of these two and/or another similar one?
Tips / tricks?

[Brian Zeligson]

Awesome find Scott.

I'm personally more inclined to try the latter, based on comparing the authors insistence that his plugin fails gracefully with the other authors reminder that its distributed with no warranty, but I'll skim the code on both to get an idea how they work and report back.

[John Bacon]

I was just thinking about this last night!  I run multisite on nginx.  

The thought I had was using defines in the config to separate theme files and blogs.dir to directories of your liking, then mapping a unique vhost for themes and a unique vhost for blogs.dir.

You could do the same for a single install with apache.  You probably don't even need to move your themes or uploads to different directories, that's more of a personal preference.

The plugins look apache good.

Glad to see this list back on track!