Why requests from china will be route to US?
I tested my pages on china, I found all requests being routed to US instead Asia endpoints. I have to manually set my domain record to one of the ip of Asia, it's much faster than the default route. How can I make the requests from china being routed correctly?
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You'd need an ICP License/Enterprise to get access to Cloudflare's China Network:
https://developers.cloudflare.com/china-network/
Not sure if Pages itself will run in china, that's something you'd have to ask if you went down that way.
That is how you would get good china routes/network support. Otherwise I don't know much about China network routing, but guessing Chinese ISPs don't have the best non-china routes
Overview · Cloudflare China Network docs
The Cloudflare China Network is a package of selected Cloudflare’s performance and security products running on data centers located in mainland China …
I did not expect to use china network actually(cloudflare have patner in china but too expensive), but I assume requests come from china can be route to sgp or tokyo which wii be much faster than route to US. Also if cloudflare support user to chose a region to deploy(like vercel) that will be much better!
Cloudflare deploys globally to all regions and it is up to ISPs to route to the closet data center where pages is being served.
?anycast
Take a look here to see why the Cloudflare datacenter you are routed towards isn't always the closest geographically: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/peering-why-dont-i-reach-the-closest-datacenter-to-me/76479
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Peering - Why don't I reach the closest datacenter to me?
Why don’t I reach the closest datacenter to me? Cloudflare is an anycast network, so where you are routed is determined by peering with ISPs. The shortest path geographically isn’t always possible due to peering agreements. If you request a site hosted on Cloudflare from home: The domain resolves to a Cloudflare IP Your browser sends an HTT...