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You can load-balance between CDN vendors as well


With what? The only (sensible) way is DNS, but then your DNS provider is your SPOF. Amazon used to run 2 DNS providers (separate NS from 2 vendors for all of AWS), but when one failed, there was still a massive outage.


Then your load balancer becomes the single point of failure.


BGP Anycast will let you dynamically route traffic into multiple front-end load balancers - this is how GSLB is usually done.

Needs an ASN and a decent chunk of PI address space, though, so not exactly something a random startup will ever be likely to play with.


Then add a load balancer in front of your load balancer, duh. /s




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