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Cloudfront uses failover origins #27

Open barlock opened 5 years ago

barlock commented 5 years ago

Overview

As a user, I want to have maximum site uptime, so that I don't get frustrated having the site down.

Reference

Assumptions

A Cloudfront origin group (with some work?) will rotate through origins if one fails
All ipfs gateways act the same so using one vs the other doesn't matter too much

Questions

What other benefits can we get from origin groups? Geo distribution?

Acceptance

If one gateway goes down, move to the next one in the list
Gateway order:
1. Infura (ipfs.infura.io)
2. IPFS.io (gateway.ipfs.io)
3. Cloudflare (cloudflare-ipfs.com)
4. Secondary IPFS? (ipfs.io)

Tasks

barlock commented 5 years ago

I made an attempt at this, I couldn't figure out how to cloudformation origin groups and when I set it manually with a failing origin: