CDN Bypass Patterns: How to Safely Serve Traffic When a CDN Provider Is Offline
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CDN Bypass Patterns: How to Safely Serve Traffic When a CDN Provider Is Offline

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2026-02-13
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A 2026 playbook to safely bypass CDNs: scale origin, override cache-control, and perform staged DNS routing so sites stay available during outages.

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