Google: How Moving to a CDN Can Accidentally Overwhelm Your Website

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Gary Illyes and Chery Prommawin released the final video in the Non-Canonical Cabinet series, this one is on CDNs, content delivery networks. They discuss why migrating a website to a CDN can suddenly increase Googlebot crawling activity, why this may overload your origin server, and how to avoid accidentally blocking Google's crawlers.