Route to US when client and server is in EU

Website, Application, Performance
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What is the name of the domain?

zendorka.com

What is the issue you’re encountering

I’m in Hungary and reaching my server via CF took long so I tracerouted it lead to Ashbourn, Virginia. Now, I’m in Hungary, Budapest. CF has servers in Budapest so why route it to the USA? BTW my server is at Falkenstein.

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

Made sure I’m not on a VPN.

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

traceroute -6 zendorka.com:heavy_check_mark:  3s 
traceroute to zendorka-com (2606:4700:3034::6815:1ca1), 30 hops max, 80 byte packets
1 xxxxx-dsl-pool-telekom-hu (xxxxx) 1.923 ms 1.874 ms 1.856 ms
2 * * *
3 * * *
4 * 2003:0:f00::7a5 (2003:0:f00::7a5) 35.556 ms *
5 * * *
6 2003:3c0:1600:8000::1 (2003:3c0:1600:8000::1) 125.593 ms * *
7 ash-b2-link.ip.twelve99-net (2001:2035:0:2829::1) 120.023 ms 117.958 ms 117.955 ms
8 cloudflare-ic328259-ash-b2.ip.twelve99-cust-net (2001:2000:3080:7bc::2) 182.052 ms 196.035 ms 185.944 ms
9 2400:cb00:354:3:: (2400:cb00:354:3::slight_smile: 194.093 ms 180.189 ms 2400:cb00:626:3:: (2400:cb00:626:3::slight_smile: 177.837 ms
10 2400:cb00:352:1024::ac46:2944 (2400:cb00:352:1024::ac46:2944) 179.775 ms 2400:cb00:352:1024::ac46:295e (2400:cb00:352:1024::ac46:295e) 183.767 ms 2400:cb00:354:1024::ac46:856f (2400:cb00:354:1024::ac46:856f) 185.679 ms

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That is unfortunately a well-known problem, which has been brought up multiple times already, such as e.g. here:

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Thank you.
This is hilarious. :slight_smile: Ping from Eastern-Hungary to Falkenstein 28ms, ping to Budapest 10ms (that’s what I hoped for) but for static content now I get 250ms connection time, for dynamic 500.
What is even more hilarious that routing so much EU data though US can go on for years in times when so many eyes are on data protection.
What era to live in. :slight_smile:

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