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How we scaled and protected Eurovision 2023 voting with Pages and Turnstile

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Date Published
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Dirk-Jan van Helmond, Michiel Appelman, Jim de Beer (Guest Author)
Word Count
1,753
Language
English
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Summary

Once.net worked with the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023 to handle real-time voting for fans around the world during the live shows of the contest. To ensure a smooth experience, once.net used Cloudflare's global network and other features such as Tiered Caching and DDoS protection to manage traffic spikes and potential attacks. The platform handled 350 million events, seven million unique users in three hours during the event. Reference(s): https://blog.cloudflare.com/once-net-the-2023-eurovision-song-contest-and-cloudflare/ ```