diff --git a/renderer/README.md b/renderer/README.md
index 2f0b807..bb25521 100644
--- a/renderer/README.md
+++ b/renderer/README.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ signed off) and the public **legal pages** (the offer, the privacy policy and th
   here; a backend outage yields a 502, never a stale price list.
 - `GET /privacy/` — the privacy policy, and `GET /eula/` the end-user licence agreement, both as
   `text/html`: the owner-edited `ui/legal/privacy_ru.md` / `ui/legal/eula_ru.md` (baked in, read at
-  boot), rendered by the same shared `renderLegalHtml`. **Static** — no backend fetch. `GET /privacy`
+  boot), rendered once at boot by the same shared `renderLegalHtml` and served from cache. **Static** — no backend fetch. `GET /privacy`
   / `GET /eula` → 301 to the trailing-slash form. Caddy routes these here too.
 - `GET /healthz` — liveness (the compose healthcheck the backend's `depends_on` gates on).
 
diff --git a/renderer/src/server.mjs b/renderer/src/server.mjs
index 2a819a5..bd1b3e5 100644
--- a/renderer/src/server.mjs
+++ b/renderer/src/server.mjs
@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ const OFFER_MD = readFileSync(process.env.RENDERER_OFFER_MD || new URL('../legal
 // boot, no dynamic data. RENDERER_PRIVACY_MD / RENDERER_EULA_MD override the baked path for a local run.
 const PRIVACY_MD = readFileSync(process.env.RENDERER_PRIVACY_MD || new URL('../legal/privacy_ru.md', import.meta.url), 'utf8');
 const EULA_MD = readFileSync(process.env.RENDERER_EULA_MD || new URL('../legal/eula_ru.md', import.meta.url), 'utf8');
+// Render the static legal pages once at boot and serve the cached HTML: they carry no dynamic data,
+// and re-parsing the large EULA markdown on every request is slow enough under deploy-time host
+// contention (the renderer is CPU/memory-capped) to flake the contour probe. The offer stays
+// per-request because it splices in the live price list.
+const PRIVACY_HTML = renderPrivacy(PRIVACY_MD);
+const EULA_HTML = renderEula(EULA_MD);
 const OFFER_PRICING_URL =
   (process.env.RENDERER_BACKEND_URL || 'http://backend:8080') + '/api/v1/internal/offer/pricing';
 
@@ -89,13 +95,13 @@ const server = createServer(async (req, res) => {
     if (req.method === 'GET' && path === '/privacy/') {
       res
         .writeHead(200, { 'content-type': 'text/html; charset=utf-8', 'cache-control': 'no-cache' })
-        .end(renderPrivacy(PRIVACY_MD));
+        .end(PRIVACY_HTML);
       return;
     }
     if (req.method === 'GET' && path === '/eula/') {
       res
         .writeHead(200, { 'content-type': 'text/html; charset=utf-8', 'cache-control': 'no-cache' })
-        .end(renderEula(EULA_MD));
+        .end(EULA_HTML);
       return;
     }
     if (req.method === 'POST' && path === '/render') {