Pro account + Argo but data is sent from a VERY distant datacenter

[jpfischer]

Hi, I am new here.
Cloudflare claim it has a datacenter near my main audience in the south of Brazil (Porto Alegre), so I set up a pro account with argo enabled.

However, my website is being served from California (USA!!!). After setting up Cloudflare my ping has gone from 2ms to 17ms!!

Cloudflare has a datacenter in the same city my website is hosted. So why the clients on that city are not getting the contents from that datacenter??

It’s absurd! I am not even getting the data from a server i south america!

[sdayman]

That’s up to your ISP.

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 HTTP request to that IP Your ISP’s routers consult their routing table and route the packets upstream to their transit provider ( COSTS MONEY ) The packets …

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