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Why do you believe hosting it on CloudFront would avoid any downtime? Everything fails eventually.

• nodesocket 15y ago
  With Amazon's footprint and the number of datacenters around the world, it would be super unlikely that CloudFont would ever completely fail to serve content.
  • hucker 15y ago
    You think that Facebook's hosting is somehow inferior to Amazon CloudFront? You do realize that Facebook is much bigger and probably has more datacenters than Amazon right?
  • abrichr 15y ago
    As of 2009, Facebook had 60k servers worldwide, while Amazon had 40k dedicated to EC2 [1]. While Amazon has a lot more going on than just EC2, doesn't this indicate Facebook's and Amazon's footprints are at least on approximately the same order of magnitude in terms of number of servers? [1] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/05/14/whos-got-the-most-web-servers/ http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/05/14/whos-...
  • loverobots 15y ago
    From 2010 http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=409881258919 http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=409881258919
  • jmathai 15y ago
    Facebook, Amazon, Google, Yahoo, etc. all have plenty of redundancy built into everything they release. This is/was a fluke that could have affected any of them.