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About Cloudflare Waiting Room
Sudden increases in traffic can overwhelm your applications and infrastructure, leading to slow performance or complete disruption to your online presence. Cloudflare Waiting Room allows organizations to route excess users to a custom-branded waiting room, helping preserve customer experience and protect origin servers from being overwhelmed with requests. Ensure that your online transactions are not impacted by downtime or slow application performance during peak traffic hours. The waiting room acts as an extension of your brand, ensuring that users get a seamless online experience even while waiting. Eliminate costs associated with maintaining additional servers and purchasing extra bandwidth to serve peak traffic. Waiting Room keeps wait times low by dynamically managing traffic. As soon as a user leaves an application or their cookie expires, a new user is let in. Set activation thresholds based on the incoming rate of traffic or total active users.
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