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		halamadrid 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thous... I don't think it was designed to handle the volume of traffic that HN generates.

executesorder66 5 days ago [–]

A Cloudflare fronted website can't handle HN frontpage levels of traffic?

Then why does anybody use cloudflare?

tecleandor 4 days ago | [–]

Probably bad cache headers configuration. Even with Cloudflare in front it could be forwarding every request to the backend if the cache headers are misconfigured...

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