For Static Sites, There’s No Excuse Not to Use a CDN

Re:For Static Sites, There’s No Excuse Not to Use a CDN by cortesoft on Friday June 08, 2018 @12:14PM (#17266864)

You can do the same redundancy with CDNs. Most big sites use a multi-CDN solution, and balance traffic based on price and performance, with the added benefit of automatic failover if a CDN has issues.

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Re:For Static Sites, There’s No Excuse Not to Use a CDN by mrb on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:53PM (#17271453)

I've never seen any multi-CDN setup that fully avoids central points of failures. For example Cloudflare requires making Cloudflare nameservers the authoritative servers for your domain name. Therefore if they have an outage (and if the records aren't cached at the client level,) then your website is going to be inaccessible.

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Re:For Static Sites, There’s No Excuse Not to Use a CDN by cortesoft on Saturday June 09, 2018 @12:37PM (#17273769)

Really? I can't imagine you HAVE to set your NS to Cloudflare, there has to be alternatives. I work for a CDN, the idea of requiring a customer to set us as their NS is crazy to me.

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