California was where my first servers were. However, after changing server location, to pretty much anywhere, visitors still get routed to California first, causing unnecessary lag.
Right now for example, my server is in Virginia, and there’s a Cloudflare PoP in Virginia, and yet whenever my site is proxied, MTR shows visitors get routed to California.
I’ve turned CF proxy off, but I’d prefer to have it on. I don’t know the point of submitting a ticket as when I used to pay for Cloudflare the response was “well anycast is unpredictable”. But its always been California, it’s been very predictable.
Any advice? thanks. I’m willing to pay even to resolve this issue, its been bugging me
I only use 1 server right now. First used CNServers in California, then Psychz in Dallas, and now Equinix in Ashburn. Over the years I’ve used all three, MTR always shows visitors end up routing through California.
Turning CF proxy off always solves the routing issue. I know anycast by nature can involve inconvenient routing, it’s just it’s always California for me, even in Virginia.
I’ll DM you my domain because it’s without security protection like DDoS protection rn
Cloudy uses any cast IP addresses. It is extremely unlikely a user in Virginia would be hitting a CA based colo. The headers returned on an HTTP request when proxied will show the Airport CoDe for the colo for your particular request. Other users will hit to colo nearest them.
I might just be mistaking the last IP in an MTR as unicast because the airport code of the response from proxy.happyliving.wiki is what it should be, a virginia one
my server provider was giving me wrong info about this issue it seems as well