Pelican Press
High-traffic news magazine reached 96% cache hit ratio and stopped paging engineers on social spikes.
Support answers in under five minutes — by an engineer who actually reads my stack trace. After three years on a competitor, this is the difference.
Pelican's previous host treated cache as an opt-in. CubitRace's edge cache, plus a stale-while-revalidate rule tuned for breaking-story traffic, took their cache hit ratio from 71% to 96%. A high-profile feature in March 2026 pushed peak RPS up 4× — no on-call notification fired.
What changed in the first 30 days
- Median TTFB measured at origin dropped from comparable host.
- On-call paging from the team's monitoring went silent within the first week.
- Total infra spend, including CDN and add-ons, came in lower than the prior host.
What's next
Pelican Press is now expanding its CubitRace footprint to additional regions, with EU + US origins served by the same control plane. The team uses the CubitRace CLI in their CI pipeline to spin up ephemeral preview environments for every pull request.
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