This is not irony. He drops a few Google services and yet other Google services are still in use. The Google cache would still work whether its web site was reporting a 503 or not.
The irony would be that by trying to reduce its reliance on Google he would actually make it more important. That's not the case, even if the 503 was really caused by him not using Google Analytics (I wonder how) or Google CDN.
The 503 is there because currently my blog is hosted on shared hosting plan ... of course CDN is one approach to ensure availability of websites (I've not moved assets to any other CDN yet) but the point is to reduce reliance on Google Services to consider many other alternatives here and there.
OP: thanks a lot paukiatwee for sorting out that html5.js hosted on Google Code still there ... but the main point here is to reduce dependency on Google Service and consider other options there e.g. Google Analytics can be replaced with Piwik[0] which has a lot of positive reviews.
So you drop Google services in favor of open web and freedom... Now you pick up GoDaddy who is against the open web, Why not something useful like DigitalOcean or Linode?
I'm coming to this soon ... I just dropped some stuff and already planning for too many replacements. I just want to share how I see this with you guys.
The fact that you got to his content via google cache is not his choice, but yours. It doesn't speak to his dependence, but yours. Ironic that your mistake if anything bolsters his argument.
What is so ironic? In fact, it pretty much illustrates the fact that it is difficult to move off Google services entirely for someone who creates and hosts content on the internet. If someone is trying to do this, and isn't completely successful at it on the first try, I don't see any value in ridiculing him.
The irony would be that by trying to reduce its reliance on Google he would actually make it more important. That's not the case, even if the 503 was really caused by him not using Google Analytics (I wonder how) or Google CDN.