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# Edge Management Guides

Operate DNS, CDN, security, and incident controls as one measurable edge system.

- [Multi-CDN Explained](/en/guides/multi-cdn-strategy.md): Learn when a Multi-CDN architecture is justified, how to steer traffic safely, and how to test failover without creating cache or security gaps.

- [Cache Purging Without Downtime](/en/guides/cache-purging.md): Learn how to invalidate CDN content safely with scoped purges, versioned assets, stale serving, verification, and rollback procedures.

- [WAF Configuration Guide](/en/guides/waf-configuration.md): A practical WAF configuration guide covering managed rules, safe rollout, exceptions, false-positive analysis, testing, and continuous tuning.

- [CDN Migration Guide](/en/guides/cdn-migration.md): A step-by-step CDN migration plan covering configuration parity, DNS, TLS, cache behaviour, observability, staged cutover, and rollback.

- [Peak Traffic Readiness](/en/guides/peak-traffic-readiness.md): A practical peak-traffic readiness checklist covering capacity, caching, security, load testing, observability, and incident response.

- [Cloudflare and Fastly CDN Configuration](/en/guides/cloudflare-fastly-cdn-configuration.md): A provider-neutral CDN configuration checklist covering origins, TLS, cache rules, cache keys, purges, observability, testing, and rollback.

- [Agent Spoofing](/en/guides/agent-spoofing.md): Learn how to verify AI agents and crawlers with layered controls, signed requests, IP validation, and route-specific bot policies.

- [DDoS Protection Guide](/en/guides/ddos-protection.md): Understand DDoS protection layers, origin security, traffic controls, observability, and the response preparation required before an attack.

- [Bot vs Human Traffic](/en/guides/bot-vs-human-traffic.md): Learn how to distinguish legitimate people, trusted crawlers, and abusive automation using layered signals, careful response rules, and safe monitoring.

- [Security Incident Response](/en/guides/website-security-incident-response.md): Build and rehearse a tested security incident response plan for website incidents: roles, evidence, edge provider escalation, customer communication, recovery, and lessons learned.

- [Website Resilience](/en/guides/website-resilience.md): Assess whether multi-CDN reduces delivery risk. Design tested failover, consistent edge policy, and recovery objectives.

- [Managed Edge vs DIY](/en/guides/managed-edge-vs-diy.md): Compare managed edge services with a self-operated CDN, DNS, WAF, and observability stack using a buyer-specific TCO, staffing, resilience, and supplier-risk framework.

- [Unified Incident Timeline](/en/guides/unified-incident-timeline-cdn-waf-dns-origin.md): Correlate CDN, WAF, DNS, bot, DDoS, and origin evidence into a defensible incident timeline with provenance, confidence labels, privacy controls, and an SRE workflow.

- [Managed CDN RFP Scorecard](/en/guides/managed-cdn-partner-rfp-scorecard.md): Evaluate managed CDN partners with an evidence-led RFP scorecard covering resilience, security, observability, SLAs, commercial terms, onboarding, and exit readiness.

- [Safe Container Releases](/en/guides/safe-container-releases.md): A practical guide to safe container releases: immutable container builds, supply-chain controls, database compatibility, progressive delivery, Kubernetes safeguards, and observability.

- [Queue-Based Load Leveling](/en/guides/queue-based-load-leveling.md): Use queue-based load leveling to absorb bursts safely with durable acceptance, idempotent workers, backlog SLOs, scaling signals, and edge-to-origin protection.

- [Cloudflare Load Balancing](/en/guides/cloudflare-load-balancing.md): Configure Cloudflare Load Balancing pools, origin health checks, steering, session affinity, and failover with capacity-aware testing, observability, and explicit rollback criteria.