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If it doesn’t hit a cache then it should be passed on... that seems to be the basic premise of how caches work.
by ivalm 6y ago
If it doesn’t hit a cache then it should be passed on... that seems to be the basic premise of how caches work.
- GordonS 6y agoI agree with this - Cloudflare's pricing and function is clear here, and it seems perfectly reasonable and expected to have a cutoff size that they don't cache at the edge. I get the OP was pissed about a big bill and felt like lashing out, but it's unfair to complain about Cloudflare when they've done nothing wrong.
- Can_Not 6y agoCF's size limit is the first thing I checked when considering them.
- ec109685 6y agoIs the file size known as the request starts?
- afwaller 6y agoAnything the cache doesn’t have, causes a cache miss, which passes it through. So when you request the large file, the CDN (cache) doesn’t have it, so it immediately passes through to the original source. The details of how this is implemented don’t really matter in the sense that they are not going to host the large file(s) in the CDN, so they will always fall through.
- ec109685 6y agoYou're right. I misread the parent post when they were saying, doesn't "hit the cache, it should be passed on".