
10/6/2017 · Brady Gentile
What this post added
This post details how Cloudflare's CDN Interconnect program, with direct interconnections between Cloudflare and Google Cloud Platform data centers, offers advantages like higher performance, reduced congestion, and discounted egress pricing. It highlights the LUSH migration to GCP as a case study, showcasing significant bandwidth savings (75%) and a reduction in origin server requests (95%) due to Cloudflare's caching and threat filtering capabilities. The discussion also touches on cache hit rate dependency on website type and fine-grained control over caching and rate limiting.