I love this place. Thanks so much everyone.
My coding practises just shifted :) Steve On Mar 25, 5:55 am, MorningZ <morni...@gmail.com> wrote: > To build on James reply > > Using more CDNs allow your user's browser to download more > simultaneously > > http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#cdn > > On Mar 24, 2:33 pm, James <james.gp....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I think the idea is that if many sites used the Google hosted script, > > and your visitor happened to visit one of them, it's probably already > > in their browser cache, so your site will have one less file to load. > > Google has servers all over the world, so it's unlikely the service > > will be down, but it is possible I guess. Also, because of that, the > > browser might also fetch a closer file for the visitor's location > > (thus, quicker download). Additionally, since it's loading from > > Google's server, it doesn't use your bandwidth. > > > On Mar 23, 10:18 pm, Microbe <xxxmicrobe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Yup, I hear ya all and now understand the issue. Especially Sam's > > > point that upgrading automatically may break a function somewhere. > > > > Thanks so much for the replies. > > > > Much appreciated. > > > > I guess the last question is "is there any advantage in linking to the > > > google hosted scripts rather than hosting them myself?" > > > > Doesn't this leave the possibility that if google's server is down my > > > site breaks. Whereas if my server is down for some reason, well...it > > > is ALL down.
