Cloudflare local CDN unavailability

Cloudflare is currently finalising agreements with two new transit providers and will be reannouncing their ZA zones for ordinary users probably before year end. Cloudflare currently routes on basis of closest cache depending on where your ISP goes for international transit. Nothing is being flooded as the north African zones are being used because they have the capacity to handle the traffic load, I've personally been told about how comprehensive their NOC is from someone who works there - they know what's going on and are working to bring ZA back without disrupting their Enterprise customers. In the mean time, try using Cloudflare Warp+ to use Argo, which will route you via the ZA cache.

If you can please PM me with information about degraded performance via the north African cache, apart from the obvious latency penalty I can assist.
 
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waylander said:
Cloudflare is currently finalising agreements with two new transit providers and will be reannouncing their ZA zones for ordinary users probably before year end. Cloudflare currently routes on basis of closest cache depending on where your ISP goes for international transit. Nothing is being flooded as the north African zones are being used because they have the capacity to handle the traffic load, I've personally been told about how comprehensive their NOC is from someone who works there - they know what's going on and are working to bring ZA back without disrupting their Enterprise customers. In the mean time, try using Cloudflare Warp+ to use Argo, which will route you via the ZA cache.

If you can please PM me with information about degraded performance via the north African cache, apart from the obvious latency penalty I can assist.
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Kigali is not that bad. 71ms and maxes my 200Mbps line with multi thread anyways. I mostly use google though.
 
Does anyone have an update on this? I see Web Africa are now routing via Amsterdam and London.
 
KaMoS said:
Does anyone have an update on this? I see Web Africa are now routing via Amsterdam and London.
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Still not available.

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According to that free cloudflare accounts are served probably loadbalanced between London and Amsterdam. The rest is still KGL (Kigali) and Enterprise will be JHB,CPT or DUR. They were probably feeling the stress on the network in Kigali so rerouted free users.
 
waylander said:
Cloudflare is currently finalising agreements with two new transit providers and will be reannouncing their ZA zones for ordinary users probably before year end. Cloudflare currently routes on basis of closest cache depending on where your ISP goes for international transit. Nothing is being flooded as the north African zones are being used because they have the capacity to handle the traffic load, I've personally been told about how comprehensive their NOC is from someone who works there - they know what's going on and are working to bring ZA back without disrupting their Enterprise customers. In the mean time, try using Cloudflare Warp+ to use Argo, which will route you via the ZA cache.

If you can please PM me with information about degraded performance via the north African cache, apart from the obvious latency penalty I can assist.
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Bump: this was fixed today.
 
Pages With CDNs Perform Worse Than Those Without a CDN
One of our most surprising findings was that pages that utilized a CDN actually fared worse than those that didn’t use a CDN.
This was true for both desktop:
Use of CDN correlates with worse desktop page speed


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I've tried Cloudflare a few times and have always found a drop in website performance. Anybody find the above true as well?

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WazzyD said:
Pages With CDNs Perform Worse Than Those Without a CDN
One of our most surprising findings was that pages that utilized a CDN actually fared worse than those that didn’t use a CDN.
This was true for both desktop:
Use of CDN correlates with worse desktop page speed


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I've tried Cloudflare a few times and have always found a drop in website performance. Anybody find the above true as well?
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Yes so I stopped using it on my websites. The only thing its useful for, is protecting against DDoS attacks
 
WazzyD said:
Pages With CDNs Perform Worse Than Those Without a CDN
One of our most surprising findings was that pages that utilized a CDN actually fared worse than those that didn’t use a CDN.
This was true for both desktop:
Use of CDN correlates with worse desktop page speed


View attachment 740061

I've tried Cloudflare a few times and have always found a drop in website performance. Anybody find the above true as well?

backlinko.com

We Analyzed 5.2 Million Webpages. Here's What We Learned About PageSpeed

A page speed study of over 5 million webpages. Contains lots of interersting page loading speed stats.
backlinko.com backlinko.com
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Well yes, if your CDN is bad your performance will be bad. Take for example when Cloudflare stopped serving content via local caches in SA. Websites that were hosted here routed internationally first, then back here which caused performance to suffer. Also, just using a CDN like throwing your DNS behind Cloudflare won't improve performance much, actual care needs to be taken to ensure the right assets are cached and that routes taken from origin to cdn to client are better than routes directly between the origin and client. A lot of CDNs also use tiered pricing for bandwidth as costs to deliver a byte in places like South Africa or Australia are much more expensive than places like Europe or USA, so the websites uses those CDNs might not want to spend the money and end up throwing all their customers under a few volume-centric locations which are often worse than not having a CDN at all.
 
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