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Re:Cloudflare was down by cortesoft on Friday July 17, 2020 @06:06PM (#23876499)
I don't understand why the big companies don't always have at least two CDN providers, so they can failover to another one if something like this happens.

I know a lot of big companies do, but I am always surprised when you see ones that don't.

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Re:Cloudflare was down by LoSboccacc on Friday July 17, 2020 @06:29PM (#23876728)
the DNS itself is not as easy to duplicate across multiple provider, with CF DNS down having a backup CDN wouldn't have helped
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Re:Cloudflare was down by cortesoft on Friday July 17, 2020 @06:38PM (#23876804)
This isn't true... you can certainly do redundant dns with automatic failover between providers. Just set up NS records pointing to different providers.
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Re:Cloudflare was down by lima on Friday July 17, 2020 @07:17PM (#23877161)
That's not easy, you need to set up replication.
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Re:Cloudflare was down by cortesoft on Friday July 17, 2020 @09:04PM (#23877972)
Seems worth doing
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