diff --git a/services/feed-requests/migrations/Migration20250102112346.ts b/services/feed-requests/migrations/Migration20250102112346.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9e12b2ddb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/feed-requests/migrations/Migration20250102112346.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+import { Migration } from '@mikro-orm/migrations';
+
+export class Migration20250102112346 extends Migration {
+
+  async up(): Promise<void> {
+    // create table response_bodies with auto increment id, text column "body" and hash_key column "hash_key"
+    this.addSql('CREATE TABLE "response_bodies" ("content" TEXT NOT NULL, "hash_key" TEXT NOT NULL);');
+    // create index on hash_key column
+    this.addSql('CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "response_bodies_hash_key" ON "response_bodies" ("hash_key");');
+
+    // add column response_body_hash_key to request_partitioned
+    this.addSql('ALTER TABLE "request_partitioned" ADD COLUMN "response_body_hash_key" TEXT DEFAULT NULL NULL;');
+    // add foreign key constraint to response_body_hash_key column
+    this.addSql(`ALTER TABLE "request_partitioned" ADD CONSTRAINT "request_partitioned_response_body_hash_key_fk" FOREIGN KEY ("response_body_hash_key") REFERENCES "response_bodies" ("hash_key") ON DELETE SET NULL;`);
+  }
+
+  async down(): Promise<void> {
+    // drop table response_bodies
+    this.addSql('DROP TABLE "response_bodies";');
+    // drop column response_body_hash_key from request_partitioned
+    this.addSql('ALTER TABLE "request_partitioned" DROP COLUMN "response_body_hash_key";');
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/services/feed-requests/migrations/Migration20250102220055.ts b/services/feed-requests/migrations/Migration20250102220055.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c3c4752c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/feed-requests/migrations/Migration20250102220055.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+import { Migration } from '@mikro-orm/migrations';
+
+export class Migration20250102220055 extends Migration {
+
+  async up(): Promise<void> {
+    // add column content_hash to response_bodies
+    this.addSql('ALTER TABLE "response_bodies" ADD COLUMN "content_hash" TEXT DEFAULT NULL NULL;');
+  }
+
+  async down(): Promise<void> {
+    // drop column content_hash from response_bodies
+    this.addSql('ALTER TABLE "response_bodies" DROP COLUMN "content_hash";');
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/services/feed-requests/src/feed-fetcher/entities/response.entity.ts b/services/feed-requests/src/feed-fetcher/entities/response.entity.ts
index abbca7bf3..121419f1c 100644
--- a/services/feed-requests/src/feed-fetcher/entities/response.entity.ts
+++ b/services/feed-requests/src/feed-fetcher/entities/response.entity.ts
@@ -59,4 +59,7 @@ export class Response {
     nullable: true,
   })
   createdAt: Date = new Date();
+
+  responseHashKey!: string | null;
+  content!: string | null;
 }
diff --git a/services/feed-requests/src/feed-fetcher/feed-fetcher-listener.service.ts b/services/feed-requests/src/feed-fetcher/feed-fetcher-listener.service.ts
index 1859b1303..fe72ae5fc 100644
--- a/services/feed-requests/src/feed-fetcher/feed-fetcher-listener.service.ts
+++ b/services/feed-requests/src/feed-fetcher/feed-fetcher-listener.service.ts
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ export class FeedFetcherListenerService {
     }
 
     const latestOkRequest =
-      await this.partitionedRequestsStoreService.getLatestOkRequestWithResponseBody(
+      await this.partitionedRequestsStoreService.getLatestRequestWithOkStatus(
         data.lookupKey || data.url,
         { fields: ['response_headers'] },
       );
@@ -259,9 +259,9 @@ export class FeedFetcherListenerService {
         source: RequestSource.Schedule,
         headers: {
           ...data.headers,
-          // 'If-Modified-Since':
-          //   latestOkRequest?.responseHeaders?.['last-modified'] || '',
-          // 'If-None-Match': latestOkRequest?.responseHeaders?.etag,
+          'If-Modified-Since':
+            latestOkRequest?.responseHeaders?.['last-modified'] || '',
+          'If-None-Match': latestOkRequest?.responseHeaders?.etag,
         },
       },
     );
@@ -509,8 +509,11 @@ export class FeedFetcherListenerService {
     url: string;
   }): Promise<number> {
     const latestOkRequest =
-      await this.partitionedRequestsStoreService.getLatestOkRequestWithResponseBody(
+      await this.partitionedRequestsStoreService.getLatestRequestWithOkStatus(
         lookupKey || url,
+        {
+          include304: true,
+        },
       );
 
     return this.partitionedRequestsStoreService.countFailedRequests(
diff --git a/services/feed-requests/src/feed-fetcher/feed-fetcher.controller.ts b/services/feed-requests/src/feed-fetcher/feed-fetcher.controller.ts
index 2320ba882..f7270a116 100644
--- a/services/feed-requests/src/feed-fetcher/feed-fetcher.controller.ts
+++ b/services/feed-requests/src/feed-fetcher/feed-fetcher.controller.ts
@@ -227,6 +227,7 @@ export class FeedFetcherController {
 
     if (
       data.hashToCompare &&
+      latestRequest.request.response?.textHash &&
       data.hashToCompare === latestRequest.request.response?.textHash
     ) {
       return {
diff --git a/services/feed-requests/src/feed-fetcher/feed-fetcher.service.ts b/services/feed-requests/src/feed-fetcher/feed-fetcher.service.ts
index dcee7edd5..9756693ba 100644
--- a/services/feed-requests/src/feed-fetcher/feed-fetcher.service.ts
+++ b/services/feed-requests/src/feed-fetcher/feed-fetcher.service.ts
@@ -152,10 +152,16 @@ export class FeedFetcherService {
       return null;
     }
 
-    if (request.response?.redisCacheKey) {
-      const compressedText = await this.cacheStorageService.getFeedHtmlContent({
-        key: request.response.redisCacheKey,
-      });
+    if (request.response?.redisCacheKey || request.response?.content) {
+      let compressedText: string | null = null;
+
+      if (request.response.content) {
+        compressedText = request.response.content;
+      } else if (request.response.redisCacheKey) {
+        compressedText = await this.cacheStorageService.getFeedHtmlContent({
+          key: request.response.redisCacheKey,
+        });
+      }
 
       const text = compressedText
         ? (
@@ -277,23 +283,14 @@ export class FeedFetcherService {
             }
           }
 
-          response.textHash = text
-            ? sha1.copy().update(text).digest('hex')
-            : '';
-
-          /**
-           * This has a problem where 304 responses will have no feed response, which won't refresh the
-           * previous cache contents for 200 codes
-           */
-          const hashKey =
+          const key =
             url + JSON.stringify(request.fetchOptions) + res.status.toString();
 
-          response.redisCacheKey = sha1.copy().update(hashKey).digest('hex');
+          if (text.length) {
+            response.responseHashKey = sha1.copy().update(key).digest('hex');
 
-          await this.cacheStorageService.setFeedHtmlContent({
-            key: response.redisCacheKey,
-            body: compressedText,
-          });
+            response.content = compressedText;
+          }
         } catch (err) {
           if (err instanceof FeedTooLargeException) {
             throw err;
@@ -339,6 +336,13 @@ export class FeedFetcherService {
           s3ObjectKey: response.s3ObjectKey || null,
           redisCacheKey: response.redisCacheKey || null,
           headers: response.headers,
+          body:
+            response.responseHashKey && response.content
+              ? {
+                  hashKey: response.responseHashKey,
+                  contents: response.content,
+                }
+              : null,
         },
       };
 
diff --git a/services/feed-requests/src/partitioned-requests-store/partitioned-requests-store.service.ts b/services/feed-requests/src/partitioned-requests-store/partitioned-requests-store.service.ts
index 40bf1ff23..96516c3e8 100644
--- a/services/feed-requests/src/partitioned-requests-store/partitioned-requests-store.service.ts
+++ b/services/feed-requests/src/partitioned-requests-store/partitioned-requests-store.service.ts
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ export default class PartitionedRequestsStoreService {
 
     try {
       await Promise.all(
-        this.pendingInserts.map((responseInsert) => {
+        this.pendingInserts.map(async (responseInsert) => {
           const urlHash = sha1.copy().update(responseInsert.url).digest('hex');
           let hostHash: string | null = null;
 
@@ -46,6 +46,35 @@ export default class PartitionedRequestsStoreService {
             });
           }
 
+          if (responseInsert.response?.body) {
+            const contentHash = sha1
+              .copy()
+              .update(responseInsert.response.body.contents)
+              .digest('hex');
+
+            // does this content already exist in the db?
+            const results = await em.execute(
+              `SELECT 1 FROM response_bodies WHERE hash_key = ? AND content_hash = ?`,
+              [responseInsert.response.body.hashKey, contentHash],
+            );
+
+            if (results.length === 0) {
+              await em.execute(
+                `INSERT INTO response_bodies (content, content_hash, hash_key) VALUES (?, ?, ?)
+                ON CONFLICT (hash_key) DO UPDATE SET content = ?, content_hash = ?
+              `,
+                [
+                  responseInsert.response.body.contents,
+                  contentHash,
+                  responseInsert.response.body.hashKey,
+                  responseInsert.response.body.contents,
+                  contentHash,
+                ],
+                transaction,
+              );
+            }
+          }
+
           return em.execute(
             `INSERT INTO request_partitioned (
               id,
@@ -61,11 +90,12 @@ export default class PartitionedRequestsStoreService {
               error_message,
               response_status_code,
               response_text_hash,
+              response_body_hash_key,
               response_s3object_key,
               response_redis_cache_key,
               response_headers
             ) VALUES (
-              ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?
+              ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?
             )`,
             [
               randomUUID(),
@@ -80,7 +110,8 @@ export default class PartitionedRequestsStoreService {
               responseInsert.nextRetryDate,
               responseInsert.errorMessage,
               responseInsert.response?.statusCode,
-              responseInsert.response?.textHash,
+              null,
+              responseInsert.response?.body?.hashKey,
               responseInsert.response?.s3ObjectKey,
               responseInsert.response?.redisCacheKey,
               this.stringifyJson(responseInsert.response?.headers),
@@ -118,9 +149,10 @@ export default class PartitionedRequestsStoreService {
     return new Date(result.next_retry_date) || null;
   }
 
-  async getLatestOkRequestWithResponseBody(
+  async getLatestRequestWithOkStatus(
     lookupKey: string,
-    opts?: {
+    opts: {
+      include304?: boolean;
       fields?: Array<'response_headers'>;
     },
   ): Promise<null | {
@@ -244,9 +276,13 @@ export default class PartitionedRequestsStoreService {
     const em = this.orm.em.getConnection();
 
     const [result] = await em.execute(
-      `SELECT * FROM request_partitioned
-       WHERE lookup_key = ?
-       AND response_status_code != 304
+      `SELECT req.*, res.content AS response_body_content,
+        res.content_hash AS response_content_hash
+       FROM request_partitioned req
+       LEFT JOIN response_bodies res
+       ON req.response_body_hash_key = res.hash_key
+       WHERE req.lookup_key = ?
+       AND req.response_status_code != 304
        ORDER BY created_at DESC
        LIMIT 1`,
       [lookupKey],
@@ -274,13 +310,15 @@ export default class PartitionedRequestsStoreService {
         ? {
             id: result.id,
             statusCode: result.response_status_code,
-            textHash: result.response_text_hash,
+            textHash: result.response_content_hash,
             hasCompressedText: true,
             isCloudflare: false,
             s3ObjectKey: result.response_s3object_key,
             redisCacheKey: result.response_redis_cache_key,
             headers: result.response_headers,
             createdAt: new Date(result.created_at),
+            content: result.response_body_content,
+            responseHashKey: result.response_body_hash_key,
           }
         : null,
     };
diff --git a/services/feed-requests/src/partitioned-requests-store/types/partitioned-request.type.ts b/services/feed-requests/src/partitioned-requests-store/types/partitioned-request.type.ts
index 49a077cd0..5221e7b39 100644
--- a/services/feed-requests/src/partitioned-requests-store/types/partitioned-request.type.ts
+++ b/services/feed-requests/src/partitioned-requests-store/types/partitioned-request.type.ts
@@ -16,5 +16,9 @@ export interface PartitionedRequestInsert {
     s3ObjectKey: string | null;
     redisCacheKey: string | null;
     headers: object;
+    body: {
+      hashKey: string;
+      contents: string;
+    } | null;
   };
 }
diff --git a/services/user-feeds/src/article-parser/article-parser.service.ts b/services/user-feeds/src/article-parser/article-parser.service.ts
index 666c58879..d2a83546b 100644
--- a/services/user-feeds/src/article-parser/article-parser.service.ts
+++ b/services/user-feeds/src/article-parser/article-parser.service.ts
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ export class ArticleParserService {
           err.message === "Not a feed" ||
           err.message.startsWith("Unexpected end")
         ) {
-          reject(new InvalidFeedException("Invalid feed"));
+          reject(new InvalidFeedException("Invalid feed", xml));
         } else {
           reject(err);
         }
diff --git a/services/user-feeds/src/articles/articles.service.ts b/services/user-feeds/src/articles/articles.service.ts
index e6bdd79a8..3cc6c228e 100644
--- a/services/user-feeds/src/articles/articles.service.ts
+++ b/services/user-feeds/src/articles/articles.service.ts
@@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ export class ArticlesService {
       return await this.feedParserPool.exec("getArticlesFromXml", args);
     } catch (err) {
       if (err instanceof Error && err.message === "Invalid feed") {
-        throw new InvalidFeedException(err.message);
+        throw new InvalidFeedException(err.message, args[0]);
       }
 
       throw err;
diff --git a/services/user-feeds/src/articles/exceptions/invalid-feed.exception.ts b/services/user-feeds/src/articles/exceptions/invalid-feed.exception.ts
index 493310ee5..1c6105b6f 100644
--- a/services/user-feeds/src/articles/exceptions/invalid-feed.exception.ts
+++ b/services/user-feeds/src/articles/exceptions/invalid-feed.exception.ts
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-export class InvalidFeedException extends Error {}
+export class InvalidFeedException extends Error {
+  constructor(message: string, public feedText: string) {
+    super(message);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/services/user-feeds/src/feed-event-handler/feed-event-handler.service.ts b/services/user-feeds/src/feed-event-handler/feed-event-handler.service.ts
index 0ab8768d3..3a57da28d 100644
--- a/services/user-feeds/src/feed-event-handler/feed-event-handler.service.ts
+++ b/services/user-feeds/src/feed-event-handler/feed-event-handler.service.ts
@@ -480,6 +480,7 @@ export class FeedEventHandlerService {
       if (err instanceof InvalidFeedException) {
         logger.info(`Ignoring feed event due to invalid feed`, {
           event,
+          xml: err.feedText,
           stack: (err as Error).stack,
         });