Hey folks! 
As we talk about in our blog, ensuring seamless content delivery during unexpected outages or downtime is no longer optional. That’s where failover and redundancy come into play. This guide in our docs, dives into the strategies you can use to keep your content highly available across multiple origins and multiple clouds.
The piece covers:
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Concepts of caching and edge optimization to serve stale content even during outages.
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How health checks and automatic load balancing distribute traffic intelligently between primary and backup servers.
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Different failover scenarios, including basic fallback and advanced active-active configurations.
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The power of custom VCL directors for complete control over your failover logic.
Whether you’re protecting against backend outages or designing geographically distributed redundancy, this guide has you covered. Let us know how you’re setting up failover with Fastly or if you have any questions — we’re here to help!
Check the guide here: Redundancy and Failover