Vercel · Core platform
A sale goes live or a launch link goes round the WhatsApp groups, and every visitor hits the same server. Pages hang, photos load last, and some buyers give up. The CDN comes with every Vercel deployment. It keeps cached copies of your pages and images across 126 points of presence in 51 countries, and you refresh them when a price changes.
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The problem
What Content Delivery (CDN) is
Facts from Vercel’s own pages, checked on 16 October 2026. The sources are at the end of this page.
How it works
Five steps. Most requests end at the nearest point of presence. Only a miss reaches your functions, and a price change clears just the pages it touches.
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Step by step
Deploy
The build sets the rules
Your framework’s build output defines routing and caching for that deployment.
Arrive
A visitor reaches the nearest point
Firewall and DDoS checks run before anything else.
Cache
Rules run, then the cache answers
Redirects and headers run first. A cached page or photo goes straight back.
Miss
On a miss, a function answers
The request goes to functions in your chosen region, and the response can be cached.
Refresh
Change a price, purge the tag
Purge by tag or revalidate with ISR. The next visitor sees the new page.
How it fits together
Buyers reach the CDN first. Cached pages and photos go straight back. Only a miss reaches your functions, which read from Salesforce or your database. The WAF and Observability sit on the same path.
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Use cases · worked examples
How Content Delivery (CDN) fits into the work of the industries we serve, one step at a time.
Example 1 · Retail, Dubai · Infographic
Today: The White Friday email goes out at 20:00. Last year the product pages took ages to load and checkout timed out for half an hour.
After: Product pages and photos come from the CDN cache. When the team cuts a price, the store purges that product’s tag and the new price shows on the next visit.
Worked example, step by step
The sale email brings the crowd, the pages hold, and the new price is live a minute after the change.
Example 2 · Real estate, Kochi · Infographic
Today: Each project page carries forty photos and a walkthrough. Buyers working in the Gulf open it on their phones and leave before the gallery loads.
After: Photos go out as WebP and AVIF from the CDN. Unit availability comes from Salesforce, and the page refreshes with ISR when a unit is booked.
Worked example, step by step
The gallery loads on a phone, and the page stops offering a unit that is already sold.
Example 3 · Hotel apartments, Abu Dhabi · Infographic
Today: The booking engine is a third-party service. When it is slow the whole site hangs, and when it fails guests see a blank error page.
After: An external rewrite puts the room pages behind the CDN cache. Live rates stay uncached. If the engine stops answering, the booking step shows the reservations WhatsApp number instead of a blank page.
Worked example, step by step
The booking engine went down for the evening, and guests still had a way to book.
Is it for you
Good fit
Not for you yet
What Mindcat does
The assessment is free: a short read of the org and a written note. If you go ahead, the first build week is a fixed AED/SAR 14,900 (about USD 4,050), credited in full when you sign the build within 60 days. After go-live, we keep it patched, watched and changing every month.
FAQ
Sources
Checked against Vercel’s own pages on 16 October 2026. Vercel changes fast, so we check again before any plan we write for you.
Vercel is a product of Vercel Inc. Mindcat builds and runs work on it for clients; we are not affiliated with or endorsed by Vercel.
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