Why is Cloudflare sending my us-west traffic to London?
I'm building a website that I'm hosting on a Hetzner cloud server in us-west with a free Cloudflare proxy sitting in front of it. However for the past few weeks I've observed a dramatic increase in server response times when testing from multiple west coast locations in both Canada and USA.
I thought I might've introduced a regression in the application layer, but the pattern I saw was strange. The latency
would only spike on weekdays from around 8am-6pm PST i.e. peak hours. Note that the site is still a WIP and has 0 real-user traffic.
After some digging I've confirmed the issue isn't happening at the application layer, but rather at the network/Cloudflare level. When I check
Some Cloudflare community members have described that the issue is actually a business problem with ISP-Cloudflare peering agreements rather than a technical problem: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/very-slow-server-response-time/611853/3 . But they say the fix is to go from a free plan to a paid plan, and I've tried that but the latency still persists... I did go to pro though so maybe I need to go to business? I'd rather confirm the issue before committing to that.
I'm not really sure where to go from here. Has anyone gone through anything similar before? Am I missing anything obvious?
I thought I might've introduced a regression in the application layer, but the pattern I saw was strange. The latency
would only spike on weekdays from around 8am-6pm PST i.e. peak hours. Note that the site is still a WIP and has 0 real-user traffic.
After some digging I've confirmed the issue isn't happening at the application layer, but rather at the network/Cloudflare level. When I check
mydomain.com/cdn-cgi/traceSome Cloudflare community members have described that the issue is actually a business problem with ISP-Cloudflare peering agreements rather than a technical problem: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/very-slow-server-response-time/611853/3 . But they say the fix is to go from a free plan to a paid plan, and I've tried that but the latency still persists... I did go to pro though so maybe I need to go to business? I'd rather confirm the issue before committing to that.
I'm not really sure where to go from here. Has anyone gone through anything similar before? Am I missing anything obvious?
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