Priming edge caches

  • Resolved colmtroy

    (@colmtroy)


    4 years, 2 months ago

    Howdy,
    Still loving WP Cloudflare Super Page Cache ??
    I’m wondering if you’ve any thoughts on how best to prime/warm up CF edge caches?
    I’m seeing super TTFB speeds as long as the CF pop has a copy of the page in question (and the first cold request is always much much slower than hitting the origin directly).
    I’ve seen some comments that Argo can help with this (and others who say it doesn’t).
    I’ve got a few geographically dispersed VPS’s which I’m probably going to write a script to request my most popular pages after a CF cache purge, but it would be great if there was some way to push pages out to CF pop’s in some way after a cache purge.
    Thanks,
    Colm

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  • Plugin Contributor iSaumya

    (@isaumya)

    Hi @colmtroy,
    You have asked a great question. First of all Argo can help in this case. As Argo works between the origin server and CF and not between the user and CF. With Argo Smart Routing enabled if the page user is looking for is already cached in any CF major edges, CF will pull it from that edge instead of hitting the origin. Take a look: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/argo-smart-routing/#hero-blade

    On the other hand if you don’t want to use Argo, you can also use Uptrends CDN Checker Tool: https://www.uptrends.com/tools/cdn-performance-check to fetch the page from multiple locations around the world. In this way your page will be cached at most places. You can also pay to Uptrends to get their API access and write some script to do it automatically.

    In fact, we tried doing the same and contacted Uptrends for it but they said that they are not interested support any open source projects. So, you have to do it on your own.

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by iSaumya.
    Thread Starter colmtroy

    (@colmtroy)

    thanks for the really useful reply @isaumya !
    I’ll give Argo a shot and see if it helps.
    Shame Uptrends didn’t want to help support you!

    Plugin Contributor iSaumya

    (@isaumya)

    Thanks @colmtroy. Yah, apparently Uptrends only care about money and have absolutely no intention to support open-source developments. I guess they are like the old Microsoft. ??

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