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Tangential question, but with services like these, is there a known way to handle failure gracefully? Some way to automatically bypass these services if they ar
by ysavir 5y ago
Tangential question, but with services like these, is there a known way to handle failure gracefully? Some way to automatically bypass these services if they are known to be down?
- richardwhiuk 5y agoHave two different CDN partners, own your own DNS, and then withdraw one of the CDNs if they are down. Suspect that's what Amazon have done.
- efficax 5y agoYou have to have two separate cdns and use DNS to fail over. The problem is that means paying for a CDN that just sits dormant for the 99.999% of the time that your primary is down. Alternatively you could use DNS to fail over to the content you host, instead of another CDN. But in many cases that would be the same as an outage since the CDN exists to reduce the impact of all those requests on your infra