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0 pointshaiku20778mo ago0 comments

It comes down to:

1. Use the Cache-Control header to express how to cache your site correctly (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Cac...)

2. Use a CDN service, or at least a caching reverse proxy, to serve most of the cacheable requests to reduce load on the (typically much more expensive) origin servers

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mrweasel8mo ago

Just note that many AI scrapers will go to great length to do cache busting. For some reason many of them feel like they need to get the absolute latest version and don't trust your cache.

haiku2077OP8mo ago

You can use Cache Control headers to express that your own CDN should aggressively refresh a resource but always serve it to external clients from cache. It's covered in the link under "Managed Caches"

cortesoft8mo ago

A CDN can be configured to ignore cache control headers in the requests and cache things anyway.

deepsiml8mo ago

Thank you!

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