If Your CDN Goes Down, Does Your Site Have To?

The JetRails Podcast

If there's an outage at a modern cloud provider like AWS we have the technology to notice the issue and failover to one of their other data centers. However, it's not so easy when a content delivery network (CDN) is having issues. By their very nature, these networks are distributed across servers in data centers all over the world. This makes tracking and addressing outages and other problems much more challenging. CDNs can also be tied in with a variety of security solutions, from web application firewalls (WAF) and SSL certificates to DDoS mitigation and bot protection. They can be configured for performance optimization too, optimizing images and website coding. So what happens if you try to fail over to another CDN? Will your site security and performance take a hit? If you have an eCommerce site, will it still be PCI compliant? We tackled these questions, and more! Tune in to learn about CDN failover solutions that can work with any major CDN, like Akamai, AWS Cloudfront, Cloudflare, Fastly, and Google Cloud CDN. Guest: Subbu Varadarajan, Zycada.com Host: Robert Rand, JetRails.com