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There is something to be said about letting experts do what they do best.
by interrupt_ 6y ago
There is something to be said about letting experts do what they do best.
- qeternity 6y agoIt’s not that: a single expert is still a single point of failure. Everyone goes down, it’s all just shades of gray. The sad thing here is that front end (or stateless for that matter) is actually fairly easy to run across two CDNs
- striking 6y agoDo you really need to spend the time (and maybe money) for a second host just because your current one might go down for an hour? There's probably a point at which you might rightly consider it, but I doubt many people are legitimately at that threshold. Especially given I don't even remember the last time Netlify had this issue.
- bdcravens 6y agoThe total downtime was less than an hour and a half. Many spend more time each day on HN.
- qeternity 6y agoWhen did I ever say most people have this issue? Of course most don’t. But there are many that do: an hour of lost sales a few times a year can easily justify the very easy efforts of running two CDNs. You’re vastly overestimating the cost (human and financial). In my business, being down for an hour would be a very big deal.
- bdcravens 6y agoDoing it yourself qualifies as "a single expert is still a single point of failure". A single vendor at least has some levels of staffing and redundancy that I nor my company can match.
- qeternity 6y agoI’m not suggesting doing it yourself...I’m suggesting the exact opposite. What I am advocating for is redundancy. But thanks for playing.