The Crown

What it is

The Crown remembers recent pages and files in Zipper’s own process. If a visitor asks for something we already have, they get it from memory. If not, Zipper fetches it from your site (or from object storage) and keeps a copy for a while. This is in-process cache on multi-layered Global Server nodes.

Cloudflare analogue: Cloudflare CDN / Caching. SLA 99.9% · p99 42ms. Admins publish cache policy. Operators may purge.

• ▸Saves pages in memory
• ▸Can serve a slightly old copy while it refreshes
• ▸Shrinks HTML and compresses files
• ▸Last good copy if your site is down

How it works

Point an A/AAAA at tinyzipper.com (191.215.40.237) or call https://tinyzipper.com/gate/{hostname}/. Visitors hit Zipper’s in-process cache on multi-layered Global Server nodes.

The Crown applies cache level and TTLs from Policy, then fetches origin only on a miss. gzip (and brotli when requested) run in the same process.

Purge a prefix when you ship a new asset. Purge drops keys from Zipper’s memory — there is no extra PoP to wait on.

Use cases

Concrete ways teams use this service on day one.

Set it up in the dashboard

Dashboard → Services → The Crown.

Publish cache level, TTLs, minification, and gzip.

Use Purge prefix for /assets/* after a release.

API

Control-plane: POST /api/v1/archives/purge. Send Authorization: Bearer tz_live_YOUR_TOKEN.

Creates count against the plan quota. A 402 plan_limit means you are at the cap — upgrade or delete an unused resource.

curl -sS -X POST https://tinyzipper.com/api/v1/archives/purge \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer tz_live_YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"prefix":"/assets/*"}'

const res = await fetch("https://tinyzipper.com/api/v1/archives/purge", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.ZIPPER_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
  }
});
const json = await res.json();
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(json.error ?? res.statusText);
console.log(json);

Tips

Use Bypass only on HTML that is personalised per cookie.

Aggressive cache is for hashed `/static/` folders.

• ▸Global Server
• ▸In-process cache

Runbook

Purge by prefix on Zipper. The Crown is an in-process cache.