Deleted page appears cached
Hello! We have deleted a page on our site, but it appears to still be cached in pages.
Pages: https://owid.pages.dev/communications-outreach-manager-q4-2023 (removed, 404)
Site: https://ourworldindata.org/communications-outreach-manager-q4-2023 (cached, remains)
DNS has a CNAME record proxying to the pages domain with auto TTY.
Any suggestions on how to get pages we remove deleted from our site?
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You're probably hitting Pages Asset Retention cache:
https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/serving-pages/
We will insert assets into the cache on a per-data center basis. Assets have a time-to-live (TTL) of one week but can also disappear at any time. If you do a new deploy, the assets could exist in that data center up to one week.
Serving Pages · Cloudflare Pages docs
Cloudflare Pages includes a number of defaults for serving your Pages sites. This page details some of those decisions, so you can understand how …
Thanks Chaika, that seems like it could be the case. I guess that if the cache is unavoidable and unpredictable, would that mean we'd have to ship some kind of tombstones to properly delete pages we want to remove right away?
You have a few other options too, like using Redirect Rules to redirect requests to a 404, _redirects file, or bulk redirects