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"I dropped Google Analytics, Google CDN..."

Currently offline "Service Unavailable HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable."

Here's the google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...

Oh, the irony.

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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.

But Google isn't the only one to provide that service either, so no one should be reliant on it. http://www.ahmedatia.com.nyud.net/Blog/IamBackWithoutGoogle.... and http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=url%3ahttp%3a%2f%2fwww.ahme... work too.

The site include http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js

Oh...

The site is hosted on secureserver.net and secureserver.net is own by GoDaddy[0]

[0]: http://whois.domaintools.com/secureserver.net

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.

[0] http://piwik.org

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.

Other comments point out the real irony:

stevewilhelm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7793466

paukiatwee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7793328

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.

irony: "an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected."

The expected outcome for me would be that the article would be delivered to me without the use of Google services.

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.

Thought the same thing when all his assets were broken.

Oh, the irony.

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