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Comment by matt-p

5 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.

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?

  • 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.

    • Which suggests its expensive enough for it to be unlikely they just have the capacity lying around to spin up.