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The caching aspect is one pro to using these services, but by using these CDN's, your exposure to failure is greatly increased. Instead of factoring in the risk
by brandon272 17y ago
The caching aspect is one pro to using these services, but by using these CDN's, your exposure to failure is greatly increased. Instead of factoring in the risk that your own server or network may be unavailable or slow, you now need to account for 1, 2 or 3 other networks that you are grabbing files from.
- tensafefrogs 17y agoOn the other hand, I bet google's CDN has better uptime than your server does.
- soult 17y agoSo? This does not help me at all. If my host is down, then my site is down. If my JavaScript CDN is down and I have no fallback, my site is down as well. You imply that "totalDownTime = CDNDownTime", while really it is "totalDownTime = WebhostDownTime + CDNDownTime". Thus using a CDN, while it might make the site faster 99,999% of the time, always increases the total downtime.