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by sideshowb 2301 days ago
You have to accept that a server may fail to be accessible, whether it's yours or Amazon's. If this is an issue you add redundancy.

When you load lots of resources from God knows where in a way such that any single failure takes the page down, you are reducing the reliability that you could have had if the resources were all in the same place which you concentrate on keeping available.