Understanding Server-Side Cache: Exploring Website Updates and Timelines

[ergospherical]

I'm not very familiar with different existing caching mechanisms of modern websites. If someone says that a website has been updated, but it will take "until the morning" for the changes to show, why might that be the case? Even assuming the client can clear their local cache at any time. Does the web-developer set the time-scale for server-side cache updates, or maybe they mean instead that the website is designed to auto-update every few hours? What's most likely?

 

[jack action]

You may have proxy servers in between that cache the webpage.

More info: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Caching