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What conclusions can we draw about concentrating web content in a few CDNs?
by ClearAndPresent 5y ago
What conclusions can we draw about concentrating web content in a few CDNs?
- threeseed 5y agoIn HTML/CSS you should be able to specify a fallback source if the first returns a non-200. Or that companies need to have better DNS strategies.
- richardwhiuk 5y agoWeb Browsers should probably retry a different server in DNS if they get a 503 - but they don't.
- allyant 5y ago> In HTML/CSS you should be able to specify a fallback source if the first returns a non-200. Except if the HTML/CSS is hosted on that CDN?
- ilaksh 5y agoContent-centric networking had been a central research topic for many years. And many potentially useful systems have been proposed and implemented. At some point some of them will start to become popular.
- nickelpro 5y agoDNS didn't fail, and there's nothing you can do in HTML/CS/JS if your CDN fails to serve those things
- itsbits 5y agowe had that experience when cloudfare was down for sometime lastyear. We now setup a minor own static server as a backup, if at all this happens again. Althgh we hadn't so far had to use it.
- npteljes 5y agoThat sometimes they fail but the world goes on.