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Re:Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure... by amelius on Monday July 20, 2020 @04:51PM (#23901774)
Yes, but for a customer it's trivial to swap out one CDN for another, isn't it?
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Re:Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure... by Kalium on Monday July 20, 2020 @04:52PM (#23901786)
Depending on how you integrated it and how deeply, it may be trivial. Certainly going from one DNS-based CDN to another can be pretty easy - a Cloudflare / CloudFront swap could be quick.

Which suggests to me that CDNs are already a commodity in some ways.

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