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The weak link is DNS and routing (e.g. a BGP issue from a third party you don’t control) in this scenario. Using two or three CDNs, you should be good handle ho
by atmosx 6y ago
The weak link is DNS and routing (e.g. a BGP issue from a third party you don’t control) in this scenario. Using two or three CDNs, you should be good handle hosting easily for static assets.
A BGP issue might bring down the website for a country or a city or a continent for 5 hours.
That is not something you can control.
Same goes with DNS, there is caching, probably a load balancer might get updated at some point and a PHP app that has cached the DNS might miss a hit or two before invalidating.
It’s an interesting exercise.