This is not true. Purges on akamai take less than ten minutes for entire cp codes or specific objects.
Deploying new cache rules is less than an hour in many cases
How many POPs are you using? I can assure you, I am not wrong here and have internal knowledge of why if you are truly using all POPs it takes so long.
Look, I know what I'm talking about. Just because you can purge faster because of a different deployment doesn't mean that's the case for everyone. "Fast Purge" is not available for every type of deployment.
Thanks for replying, but unless you're willing to explain to the rest of us why so, why bother? I can't make heads or tails of this pissing contest thread.
"Site Delivery" is purged globally within 7 minutes.
"Fast purge" enabled products (site delivery) is purged globally in under 20 seconds.
All assets for websites are site delivery. Only media services family of products are not site delivery. Those purge within a couple of hours. If you are someone who uses media services products, you know how to force Akamai to go back to origin globally instantaneously and how to trigger invalidation. In media services you should never serve stale.
As I said, it depends on your deployment. Thanks for the reply and confirming what I said was correct, that under some deployments it can be a multi-hour purge.