Comment by potato3732842

5 hours ago

You can't just "turn off CDN" on the modern internet. You'd instantly DDOS your customers' origins. They're not provisioned to handle it, and even if they were the size of the pipe going to them isn't. The modern internet is built around the expectation that everything is distributed via CDN. Some more "traditional" websites would probably be fine.

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oasisbob  4 hours ago

Might be just me, but I can think of many origins under my control which could live without a (non-functional) CDN for a while.

CDN is great for peak-load, latency reductions, and cost - but not all sites depend on it for scale 24/7

matt-p  4 hours ago

If you are DO you could, you just decided not to bother. They control the origins it's spaces (s3), so they could absolutely spin up further gateways or a cache layer and then turn the CDN off.

  • graemep  4 hours ago

    Either you are wrong and they do not have the capacity to do that, or they have decided it is acceptable to be down because a major provider is down

    I imagine a cache layer cannot be that easy to spin up - otherwise why would they outsource it?

    • matt-p  4 hours ago

      You outsource it because clouflare have more locations than you so offer lower latency and can offer it at a cost that's cheaper or the same price as doing it yourself.

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