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		executesorder66 8 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thous... A Cloudflare fronted website can't handle HN frontpage levels of traffic? Then why does anybody use cloudflare?

tecleandor 8 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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