Vercel Cuts CDN Metadata Lookup Latency for Large Deployments

Vercel says it has cut the slow tail of one of its CDN routing operations by changing how edge metadata is fetched and cached for large deployments. In […]

Vercel Makes Flat-Rate CDN Billing Generally Available for Pro Teams

Vercel’s Flat Rate CDN gives Pro teams fixed monthly CDN billing with spike protection, a notable pricing shift for site operators managing unpredictable edge traffic.

Cloudflare Tests Zstandard Cache Transcoding to Stretch CDN Capacity

Cloudflare says a cache-transcoding prototype could materially expand effective CDN cache capacity by storing eligible assets in Zstandard-compressed form inside its Pingora-based edge stack. In a September 1 […]

Cloudflare Syncs AI Bot Rules with robots.txt for Site Operators

Cloudflare’s Bot Preference Sync ties AI crawler preferences for search, agents, and training to the robots.txt file site operators publish.

Vercel Adds Encrypted Client Hello to Its CDN as Hostname Privacy Moves Up the Stack

Vercel has added Encrypted Client Hello support to Vercel CDN, a small changelog item with a practical privacy angle for hosted sites. The company says ECH is now […]