I think the idea is that if many sites used the Google hosted script, and your visitor happened to visit one of them, it's probably already in their browser cache, so your site will have one less file to load. Google has servers all over the world, so it's unlikely the service will be down, but it is possible I guess. Also, because of that, the browser might also fetch a closer file for the visitor's location (thus, quicker download). Additionally, since it's loading from Google's server, it doesn't use your bandwidth.
On Mar 23, 10:18 pm, Microbe <xxxmicrobe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yup, I hear ya all and now understand the issue. Especially Sam's > point that upgrading automatically may break a function somewhere. > > Thanks so much for the replies. > > Much appreciated. > > I guess the last question is "is there any advantage in linking to the > google hosted scripts rather than hosting them myself?" > > Doesn't this leave the possibility that if google's server is down my > site breaks. Whereas if my server is down for some reason, well...it > is ALL down.
