Imgix service broken, wise to avoid and self host? The imgix.com service is down yet again (happened a couple of times this month already). All we use them for is resizing images on the fly, which i could do with a small nodejs script, s3 and any CDN. Does anyone have any comments on this? |
I always thought their posts were kinda neat about racking odd shaped Apple hardware in the datacenter. But it very much seemed to me like a software problem -- I would think it's much easier to build competing image scaling libraries that do not require Mac hardware and software.
And it made me think that they had just hired like datacenter guys with a passion for Apple kit -- a supreme case of where if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Today I might try to hit the cache from nginx using lua -- and then only call the python thing on a miss.
We fetched from S3 on-the-fly while caching the generated image using a CDN we already had at hand. This is a band-aid for the night (we're in India, it's 2 AM here) and not for handling daytime traffic. We're obviously hoping imgix will fix their issues in the next several hours. Even if not, at least our customers get a degraded experience than a broken one.