Questions about routing, not an issue

[jithut212]

We have a few websites which we have enabled in our Cloudflare account. When we access those sites from India, we are taken to Cloudflare’s HK DC slowing the website response times. Please advice why some sites are routed to the Mumbai DC and some to HK ?

https://www.earningapplication.com

[sandro]

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 …