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Edit: The now-deleted question was about reliability. Hi, I'm one of the cofounders. Without reliability (and security) there's not much point in running this
by zackbloom 12y ago
Edit: The now-deleted question was about reliability.
Hi, I'm one of the cofounders. Without reliability (and security) there's not much point in running this business. Our files are served by the Fastly Global CDN which is used by Twitter, Github, Shopify, and Imgur. Files are built when you make changes, and shipped to a static file host (Amazon S3), meaning your files keep being served even if all of our infrastructure falls of the face of the earth.
We also have procedures in place for doing DNS failover to another CDN provider, should Fastly have issues. We monitor test requests to our infrastructure continuously from hosts around the globe. Feel free to follow our status page for continuous updates: http://status.eager.io/ http://status.eager.io/, and contact us with any questions: help@eager.io.
- smt88 12y agoAmazon has outages, too. I'm sure you've thought of that, but don't assume Amazon to be available 100% of the time.
- zackbloom 12y agoVery true, I remember the three day outage of '08 well. Fortunately there are enough cloud providers these days that maintaining parity between providers is easier than it used to be.
- legutierr 12y agoCan I ask you why you've chosen Fastly over other alternatives? I've been interested in trying them out, but haven't taken the plunge.
- zackbloom 12y agoSure. The simple reason is they're more configurable. We, for example, route traffic differently if you are an Eager user testing your site than if you are visiting a site with Eager installed. Using Fastly has allowed us to not touch requests which don't need special handling at all, making our file delivery faster and preventing us from having to roll out our own edge servers.