Discuss Serving Static Content From Another Server

[Zren]

503s are prominent enough that you'll get 2-4 every page load.
One 503 will break the entire page.
That cache is completely ignored if you get a 503.

Either have a seperate Apache server under a subdomain (eg: static.openuserjs.org) or use a public CDN.

Sorry Martii. Having the site be useful outweighs any security concerns of not hosting our own javascript.

We can host Ace locally (as it appears to not work on a CDN) but it's not on every page anyways.

[Martii]

This is still blocked with #343 with needs testing and now here. There's nothing to be sorry about. Don't work on this until fully documented with any presented 503s _(the toobusy-js package 503 main page does not apply here nor do times around scheduled redeployment)_ ... you need to do the same by posting maffs somewhere... screenshots won't be accepted...This will take some time to document as you've given it a whole half of a day to propagate caching to clients and no recent applicable proof.

[Martii]

Starting this off.... jQuery. There are a few available CDNs that can handle this that are official.

• https://jquery.com/ at https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.1.min.js
• https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/devguide#jquery at https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js
• https://github.com/jquery/jquery with a specific commit hash... and not a tag since those can be deleted/moved arbitrarily.
• On our github.io page with a redirect to a specific commit hash if possible.
• GH on our project here which should probably include a moving of our source tree down one level. This will also require coordination with @sizzlemctwizzle with deployment and definitely needs Establish a build/exec/deploy system #249. Bower and gulp should accommodate this.

EDIT: Discussing out loud with a sample source tree:

• ./dist
  • ./dist/jquery
    • ./dist/jquery/jquery-2.1.1.min.js
• ./tests
• ./dev
• ./src
  • ./src/libs
  • ...

and so on and so forth.

• Anything not yet discovered.

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Some rules:

1. Served external scripts and other used content must not require that sites JavaScript on the client to be enabled ever in order to be retrieved.
2. Must be https for 100% of content served.
3. Preferably tracked and visible history.
4. Under our control not some vague CDN like cloudflare which gives equal if not more 503's various times during the day prior to caching.

[Martii]

The somewhere for maffs is now on our wiki in the maff subfolder. If you are unfamiliar with maffs please visit https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/mozilla-archive-format/ and please ensure that it is a single compressed zip with the .maff extension. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to save a page with this add-on. If you are using a different browser then you need to find one for that browser if available... if not then you have to do it in Moz... if no maffs are present then this issue could be closed with invalid... e.g. participation is optional but if you observe one save the page and save http://status.nodejitsu.com and post those in. This will track everything and don't worry about overwriting things there in that folder because the git visualization will handle that.

As you can see @Zren I'm way ahead of you and I've given this quite a bit of thought. :)

[jimaek]

Maybe jsDelivr could help?
We have a custom setup available

[Zren]

Served external scripts and other used content must not require that sites JavaScript on the client to be enabled ever in order to be retrieved.

What does that limit us to? CDNs that only serve their content on a subdomain?

[Martii]

What does that limit us to?

This part was difficult to word which is why it got appended to multiple times. Disable JavaScript and load the target url into the address bar in a new tab... if the resource doesn't show up properly (MIME type and all) due to a requirement of JavaScript being enabled then it's a no go.

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Maybe jsDelivr could help?
We have a custom setup available

Will check it out. I'm definitely interested in proper load balancing when an outage occurs. Thanks.

[Martii]

Heads up... no one has posted any maffs or any other message regarding this issue. Possibly later today or tomorrow it will be closed.