GEO DNS Without loadbalancer? How To?

Developers
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Hello there are so many products its easy to get lost.

Our app uses Websockets and sends a lot of traffic. This is what we “think” we want.

We have a web app soon to be on your CDN.
The webapp opens a websocket connection, the WS uses a lot of bandwidth.
We have 3 geo locations. Finland, Germany, Kansas City USA.
Each geo location has location prefix. kns, hel, fsn.

When you hit ourapp.com you get served off the cdn.
When you open a WS connection to ourapp.com (we want it to go to our nearest datacenter by geo). We do not want to use a loadbalancer that passes the traffic through all your servers because there is ALOT of bandwidth. Will something like your anycast work here?

Can anyone recommend something or will a setup like this work with Cloudflare?

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You can use the Geo-Steering Load Balancer on a :grey: hostname, which will Route to specific pools based on the Cloudflare region serving the request.

But the question is a bit confusing. You cannot simultaneously have connections to example.com terminated on a CDN and going to your own data centre.

It might be worth opening a support or sales ticket with your use case to see if it violates the terms of service. Bandwidth is not necessarily an issue, depending on what you are doing.

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We do video streaming and file sharing. File upload/download happens via websockets as well as video streaming (because we need to encrypt/decrypt the stream clientside).