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Mattijs Naus
@chillyorange · Director
CloudFlare does indeed have a similar feature; however there are a couple of differences. CloudFlare does not keep a backup of the entire site, rather a backup of the most popular pages (in case a page does not exist, the user will see an error), Failswitch always backs up the entire site. Second, CloudFlare only crawls your site once every seven days where … See more
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Ian Hunter
@ianhunter · Builder (@founderkit, @zaarly)
I thought Cloudflare did this for free?
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Kevin William David
@kwdinc · Community @Siftery. No 1 Hunter on PH🥇
When your website goes offline, for whatever reason, Failswitch will automatically detect this and re-route all traffic to a static copy of your site until the original version comes back online.
Taylor Edmiston
@kicksopenminds · Software Engineer @ Astronomer
This looks neats. My biggest concern was trusting them with my DNS, so it's comforting to see that address in the FAQ:
> "Why should I trust Failswitch with my DNS?
Well, you don’t have to! We have partnered with one of the most reliable DNS providers out there; DNS Made Easy. DNS is such a critical part of running a web site, we wouldn’t feel comforta… See more
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Mattijs Naus
@chillyorange · Director
@Taylor Edminston Tnx for pointing out that faulty link; all fixed up now :)
@Ian Hunter Just had a closer look at exactly what CloudFlare is offering these days, but wasn't able to locate anything like a site failover product (then again, might have overlooked it). Do you have a link the info talking about this product? Tnx!
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Mattijs Naus
@chillyorange · Director
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