The news site that DDoSed its own origin A mid-size sports outlet had 14 CDN edge regions and a single origin in Virginia. When a playoff result broke, every region's cache expired the article within the same minute. All…
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The Sydney store that timed out at checkout A 40k-pageview fashion store ran a single origin in Frankfurt. Sydney shoppers waited 680ms just for the HTML to start streaming, and the cart page — uncached because of a sess…
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Edge TLS termination vs. full origin handshake: a Dublin store cuts setup time An online grocer terminated TLS only at origin in Dublin, with the CDN passing encrypted bytes straight through. Every new visitor from dista…
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The course platform whose videos never cached An online course site in Dublin streamed lecture videos and saw a 30% cache-hit ratio on a library that barely changed. Lectures are static, so the number made no sense, unti…
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The purge that broke the site it was meant to fix An e-commerce site in Melbourne deployed a price change and did a hard purge of 200,000 product pages. The instant they did, every edge node had nothing cached, and 200,0…
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