http://davestarling.me/2008/07/21/amazons-s3-outage-redux/ Internet Architect Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:38:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://davestarling.me/2008/07/21/amazons-s3-outage-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Dave Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:02:57 +0000 http://thedavetoday.com/?p=9#comment-3 That's a nice idea. Unfortunately in this instance S3 was actually returning content, albeit an HTML page saying "Service Unavailable". Akamai ended up caching that. That’s a nice idea. Unfortunately in this instance S3 was actually returning content, albeit an HTML page saying “Service Unavailable”. Akamai ended up caching that.

]]> http://davestarling.me/2008/07/21/amazons-s3-outage-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Maya Ed Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:28:04 +0000 http://thedavetoday.com/?p=9#comment-2 Akamai can easily be setup to serve "stale" content by default. This means that if you can't reach an origin server Akamai will serve whatever is already in cache. This may be a better option than permanently caching objects and having to purge the full site. Just a suggestion. Akamai can easily be setup to serve “stale” content by default. This means that if you can’t reach an origin server Akamai will serve whatever is already in cache. This may be a better option than permanently caching objects and having to purge the full site. Just a suggestion.

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