why high ping on pages?
ping from india on mywebsite.com is 140ms average while on mywebsite.pages.dev is 14ms
what could be the reason and how to troubleshoot?
ping from most other locations is good (sub 10ms)
p.s.: mywebsite.com is a placeholder name for my actual domain name.
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Same for my deployments as well. Also the pages.dev is served from NAG while the my domain is served from SIN
I think this has to do with that pages.dev is being treated as an enterprise account vs my free plan website
Would be glad if someone can confirm this is the case
yes, pages.dev have essentially ent/argo routing
could look at https://cloudflare.manfredi.io/en/tools/datacenters/ and https://debug.chaika.me/?findColo=true and see where you get routed depending on plan
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Argo routing helps pages deployments?
Argo gives you Enterprise like inbound routing
I thought Argo is between the server and cloudflare... So for a cached deployment such as pages, it won't help at all
Argo is primarily that yea, adverts better routing to origin which Pages can't benefit from -- but it also gives you Enterprise like inbound routing
Indian cloudflare customers have it tough, bad routing on free plan and no proper payment support for upgrades (apart from PayPal)
it's the Indian ISPs who are to blame for that part lol, wanting CF to pay for peering and being silly
Yes I'm looking to get a PayPal account, that's the only option 😄
CF has a bunch of IP Pools with different routing. The IPs Pages uses aren't normal Enterprise ranges I'm used to seeing, and they look like Argoish ones, but they seem more exclusive to Pages/same reused ones, so that's why I would say "essentially Argo/Ent", probably ones from a different pool just for Pages to try to avoid blocking issues which have Enterprise routing
Thanks for confirming my thoughts @Chaika
thanks @Chaika and @zilch
anyway i can fix the high latency/ping?
for yourself? WARP can sometimes help
for visitors? upgrading plan, although there's no guaranteed colo selection/it may shift in the future. You could look at those two links I gave to see if Pro connects to local pops (I bet it does) and consider upgrading.
If you don't need any of the features of the proxy (like redirects, transform rules, etc), disable proxy on the cname in your zone under dns -> records and you'll get the routing of the pages.dev
i'm building apis, so using cloudflare as a middleware would not make sense if some users get 100ms+ latency from a middleware, not that concerned about the ping on website, but it effects the API latency so that's why