There are always a chance that things, such as e.g. images, will be evicted from the cache before th
There are always a chance that things, such as e.g. images, will be evicted from the cache before the max-age has elapsed, such as for example due to inactivity.
I wouldn't personally be expecting to be able to keep an image in cache for a full year, with only one single request to the origin during (the start of) that full year, no matter if we're talking about Cloudflare or any other CDN providers out there.
I wouldn't personally be expecting to be able to keep an image in cache for a full year, with only one single request to the origin during (the start of) that full year, no matter if we're talking about Cloudflare or any other CDN providers out there.


