Idea: Cloud redirect service

To post a link to an image or a document, the link, rather than pointing directly to the document resource, would point to the redirect service. This would check to see if the cloud resource was available and, if not, change the redirect to an available/redundant resource….maybe even hosted by a different provider. It could even perform load balancing by randomly choosing the redundant sources or always choosing those with the lowest response time.

Since cloud resources will always go down, might as well have a live backup.