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maxmcd on May 27, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rearchitecting GitHub Pages

This is all sitting behind a CDN correct?[1] Might explain why it was able to survive on two servers for so long.

Or is that automatically assumed when reading about a static hosting setup?

1. https://www.fastly.com/customers/github/

manigandham on May 28, 2015 [–]

It's mentioned in the article.

> We also have Fastly sitting in front of GitHub Pages caching all 200 responses. This helps minimise the availability impact of a total Pages router outage. Even in this worst case scenario, cached Pages sites are still online and unaffected.

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