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Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN) for images used by snippets
There recently was a service issue with YouTipIt which has since been resolved but during the outage visitors to *my* site were negatively impacted as a result.
The problem is that the page for my site wouldn't finish loading as it was trying to access the image for the YouTipIt image files that are displayed for my YouTipIt snippet.
One remedy would be to host those images on a Content Delivery Network (CDN), which generally has a much higher reliability level than hosted application and web servers provide.
To protect from this I've updated the html code for the snippet on my site so that the image loads from my servers, but I would encourage YouTipIt to consider using a CDN so that others who add a snippet to their sites can benefit from the higher reliability that a CDN offers.
There recently was a service issue with YouTipIt which has since been resolved however during the outage visitors to my website were negatively impacted as a result of YouTipIt's service problem.
The problem was that the page for my site wouldn't finish loading as it was trying to access the image and JS files that are displayed by the YouTipIt snippet on my site.
One remedy would be to host the images and JS on a Content Delivery Network (CDN), which generally has a much higher reliability level than an application's own web servers can provide.
To protect from this in the future I've updated the html code for the snippet on my site so that the image and JS loads from one of my own servers.
I would encourage YouTipIt to consider using a CDN so that others who add a snippet to their sites can benefit from the higher reliability that a CDN offers as well.