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#195 – Saumya Majumder on How Cloudflare Outages Impact the Web and WordPress Performance Solutions

#195 – Saumya Majumder on How Cloudflare Outages Impact the Web and WordPress Performance Solutions

Update: 2025-11-26

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In this episode, Saumya Majumder joins Nathan Wrigley to discuss innovations at BigScoots, focusing on high-performance WordPress hosting and Cloudflare-powered architecture. They unpack the recent global Cloudflare outage, the complexities of internet infrastructure, and Cloudflare’s transparency in response. Saumya explains advanced caching technologies, BigScoots’ direct physical connection with Cloudflare, and their custom cache plugin, highlighting how these developments offer speed, security, and fine-grained control for WordPress users, agencies, and enterprise clients. If you’re curious about how hosting companies manage such advanced caching strategies, and how Cloudflare might fit into the hosting jigsaw, this episode is for you.

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#195 – Saumya Majumder on How Cloudflare Outages Impact the Web and WordPress Performance Solutions

#195 – Saumya Majumder on How Cloudflare Outages Impact the Web and WordPress Performance Solutions

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