“Cloudflare is slow [in India] and Cloudflare [probably] can’t do much about it [but I don’t know because I’m not paying for support]” would be a more accurate title, although it’s far too snarky.<p>“Cloudflare is slow because of an Indian ISP” or “Cloudflare is slow in India and Cloudflare can’t do much about it” would both still be improvements.
So likely what happened is India just blocked one ISP because a website they wanted to block resolved to it, without bothering to check what the IP was or who it belonged to.<p>I remember Australia making similar mistakes when their list of sites to block got leaked, and it included URL's which were specific to logged in users (so it would have blocked that users login as opposed to the site).
From India, and cloudflare to my website resolves to the same ip block. The 172.67.198.x is very much reachable. In fact I can ping and access the exact ip in the article. Not sure what the OP's problem was, but it does not seem to be cloudflare or a govt block.<p>Edit: Link to screenshots: <a href="https://imgur.com/a/d7zLuCP" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/d7zLuCP</a>
Russia has blocked Cloudflare before too. You can see it in the issues for jsDelivr (which apparently handles a lot of traffic for TASS, since they use the CDN and browsers don't share caches for privacy reasons). <a href="https://github.com/jsdelivr/jsdelivr/issues/762">https://github.com/jsdelivr/jsdelivr/issues/762</a> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24894135" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24894135</a> <a href="https://learningjquery.com/2012/01/why-to-use-google-hosted-jquery-cdn" rel="nofollow">https://learningjquery.com/2012/01/why-to-use-google-hosted-...</a>
India is blocking a bunch of the IPs.<p>Here's a new acronym for us: <i>"Problem Exists Between User And Internet;</i> PEBUI.<p>This is definitely the next 5 years+ of computing. More and more nations making more and more wild ass decisions about the internet & users ending up disconnected. PEBUI.
I don't have much to add about the title except to suggest taking it with a hint of skepticism. Personally, I have a strong affinity for Cloudflare. It has consistently come to my rescue on numerous occasions. I haven't encountered any issues with speed while using their services. It's possible that my fast ISP plays a role, or perhaps the original poster needs to optimize their CF services. However, I believe it's unfair to make a straightforward claim that "They are slow" without considering potential biases. The performance of the services will always vary, and ultimately, the maximum output will depend on the specifics (end point?)
I stopped using their caching because they literally won't stop caching the old version of my site. It's just a Google Pages site and I have no idea how to get them to refresh their cache. But a year later they still return the old page. Just using DNS pass through rather than caching and the site works fine.
I agree with article's title that Cloudflare is slow but I don't agree that Cloudflare can't do much about it. For instance, putting efforts to remove bots and malicious actors from using its platform is one thing, Cloudflare can do with more seriousness.<p>Cloudflare turned out to be a big mistake for us. Read our experience:<p><a href="https://freesoftware.life/how-to-speed-up-your-wordpress-website-for-free-in-30-minutes-or-less/" rel="nofollow">https://freesoftware.life/how-to-speed-up-your-wordpress-web...</a><p><a href="https://freesoftware.life/how-using-cloudflare-free-plan-destroyed-our-websites-seo-and-serp-ranking-on-google/" rel="nofollow">https://freesoftware.life/how-using-cloudflare-free-plan-des...</a>