Cloudflare Workers for European Content Edge Caching

Introduction When your users are spread across Europe — from Warsaw to Amsterdam to Stockholm — edge caching becomes essential. At ViralVidVault , we use Cloudflare's network to cache content close to European users. Here's our edge caching strategy. The Challenge Our origin server is in a single location, but our users are across 7 regions: US, GB, Poland, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and Austria. Without edge caching, a user in Oslo gets served from the origin every time, adding 100-200ms of latency. Cloudflare Page Rules vs Workers Page Rules are simpler but limited. Workers give you programmable edge logic: // cloudflare-worker.js // Smart edge caching for video platform const CACHE_TTLS = { ' / ' : 10800 , // Home: 3 hours ' /category/ ' : 10800 , // Categories: 3 hours ' /watch/ ' : 21600 , // Watch pages: 6 hours ' /search ' : 600 , // Search: 10 minutes }; async function handleRequest ( request ) { const url = new URL ( request . url ); const cache = caches . default ; // Only