Most large players in heavy load content ( like live video streaming ) run double failover systems these days. Even if your running systems on S3 piping it through Akamai, you can't guarantee that they won't drop you when your load gets too high. So you have to setup a sister chain going through another origin and cdn.
But even at that if you start talking 100k+ clients you can't offload them all at the same time so you end up having to create this custom origin/mid tier distribution system...
Very annoying. I'd like to see CDN's being held liable if they go down or drop you entirely.
But even at that if you start talking 100k+ clients you can't offload them all at the same time so you end up having to create this custom origin/mid tier distribution system...
Very annoying. I'd like to see CDN's being held liable if they go down or drop you entirely.