Trouble with Rails, CDNs and Fonts(blog.trivvy.co)

2 pointsby shubik22vor 6 Jahren2 comments

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https://blog.trivvy.co/trouble-with-cdns-and-fonts/

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blindmvor 6 Jahren

Rather than use 3rd party CDNs, I serve assets from my own server. You can't rely on 3rd party assets to be 100% up all the time. Granted, you can't ensure your own site will be up 100% all the time either, but if your site is down, the assets go down with it anyway. Also: if a 3rd party asset is down, your site slows to a crawl as the browser hangs trying to load the asset, so best just avoiding them.

shubik22vor 6 Jahren

Thanks for reading! Definitely agree with your point about using third party CDNs. I made an exception here because of the issues discussed in the post and because it's an admin-only page (so in the unlikely event of the 3rd party CDN going down, it wouldn't impact any users).