ImpactStrafe

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   by ImpactStrafe 5y ago

   The number of serious CDN outages in the world are incredibly rare. In fact, you can probably remember most of them if you were given dates. Plus, going around the CDN can be very complex (depending on the type of content), very expensive (
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   by ImpactStrafe 5y ago

   Because interacting and switching between cdns can be very complicated and/or costly It should be planned for, especially by major tech organizations like reddit, or Amazon, etc. But I won't fault news organizations, who already d
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   by ImpactStrafe 5y ago

   Fastly is a Content Distribution Network (CDN). Basically the closer the server serving the webpage is to the end user the faster it is for the end user to see and interact with. But running servers all over the world 1) isn't efficien