Jquery.com was down

Re:Jquery.com was down by moepstar on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @01:54AM (#4903429)

Not being a web-dev guy i've never really understood why people insisted in including libraries from 3rd-party website..

Ok, i get that you might have a cache hit for a visitor that has visited a site with that exact same resource included before, but other than that, what am i missing?

Compared to events such as this, i'd rather host it myself and when i'm down, nobody cares because i'm down anyways..

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Re:Jquery.com was down by jimwalsh on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @02:02AM (#4903458)

There are benefits to use a CDN, or one of the Google API hosting services. But yes, linking to a copy right on the jquery site, can't be encouraged.

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Re:Jquery.com was down by firlefans on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @02:20AM (#4903504)

There are so many reasons not to do this. The potential site reliability risk of relying on someone else's free CDN (page not loading/loading slowly) far outweighs the slight benefit of CDN acceleration. When you CloudFront/Akamai your content, you have some sort of SLA, but don't complain when Google pull shared library hosting as they have many other free services.

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