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Update limits.md to reflect purge ratelimits

Open leejt opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

It's my understanding from talking to support and doing my own testing that purge-by-url doesn't count towards the 1200/5m limit. The docs were ambiguous whether the purge ratelimits are instead of, or in addition to, the global rate limit.

I think this is important information to spell out explicitly, since our team previously read this page to mean that the 1200/5m limit DID apply, which caused us to build unnecessary purging infrastructure, and might cause others to avoid using cloudflare.

Feel free to disregard this if the 1200/5m limit is meant to apply here, although be aware that it is not applied currently. Thanks!

leejt avatar Aug 06 '22 02:08 leejt

The 1200/5 min rate limit did apply to purge-by-url until recently, but we are working on relaxing that limit for purge-by-url specifically. purge-by-tag, purge-by-host, purge-by-prefix, and purge-everything all still count toward the 1200/5 min rate limit, so we'll need to think about how to phrase this better. Thank you for the PR, @leejt

euwest avatar Aug 10 '22 22:08 euwest

@leejt Thank you for the feedback. We'll track the changes and update the documentation accordingly.

angelampcosta avatar Aug 11 '22 14:08 angelampcosta