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I can't tell if you're being cynical or actually mean it. Care to clarify so I could take the mandatory contrarian approach?
by balex 4y ago
I can't tell if you're being cynical or actually mean it.
Care to clarify so I could take the mandatory contrarian approach?
- selcuka 4y ago/s means "end of sarcasm".
- balex 4y agoAh. Obviously. So yeah, how is a CDN centralizing your infra? You could just have your CNAMEs point to a different provider or directly to your gateways. Or you could even go down the multi CDN path, and have someone like ns1 automatically redirect your CNAMEs to an alternate CDN on a per-geo basis to overcome local failures. It's just another SaaS component in your system. You could self host if you're willing to take on the ownership challenge, and at certain scale it would even be more cost effective.
- selcuka 4y agoNot the OP, but CloudFlare is not only a CDN but does everything you mentioned in your comment for you, so it's the load balancer and the DNS as well. When it goes down everything goes down. Technically you could set up a separate DNS/failover somewhere else and use a backup reverse proxy/TLS terminator/CDN SaaS similar to CloudFlare, but then that somewhere else will be your point of failure.