
ciphercue.com
September 8, 2026
7 min read
57/100
Summary
A content delivery network sits in front of a website. Requests hit the CDN's edge servers first, which serve cached content, terminate TLS, filter traffic, and pass the rest back to the origin. That means the CDN is a shared dependency: if it goes down, every site behind it goes down together, whether or not those sites have anything else in common. I went through CipherCue's tracked European com...