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