Always Online: Because Downtime Sucks

Matthew Prince, a fellow startup founder, empathizes with Tumblr's recent downtime challenges and highlights CloudFlare's "Always Online" feature as an insurance-like solution for websites. This service builds a cached copy of the site using search engine crawlers to keep basic content available during unexpected outages. Although it cannot fully support dynamic features like shopping carts, it ensures that customers can still access the website and search engines continue indexing. CloudFlare aims to make such outages a thing of the past by partnering with platform providers to bring this feature to more sites.