On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:19 PM, Chris Woodfield <rek...@semihuman.com> wrote:
> I have some experience with this; a few things off the top of my head: > > - It’s usually best to leverage some sort of “smart” DNS to handle CNAME > distribution, giving you the ability to weight your CNAME distribution vs. > only using one CDN all the time, or prefer different CDNs in various global > regions. I’ve had decent experience with Dyn here, but Route53 has all the > features you’d want as well. If possible, write tooling towards your DNS > provider’s API to automate your failovers. > I've seen people do this in their code too, send approximate percentages of requests to different providers but then you need to do a code push for failover.
