How we scaled and protected Eurovision 2023 voting with Pages and Turnstile

This post details how Cloudflare's fast cache propagation infrastructure was leveraged to handle spikes in traffic for the Eurovision voting application. The based.io platform used a cache time of three seconds for its discovery registry, with a 20% cache hit ratio for normal traffic and up to 80% during an attack. This demonstrates the effectiveness of combining Cloudflare CDN and DDoS protection for serving dynamic and real-time content.