Introducing Last Mile Insights
blog.cloudflare.comMisleading advertising.
They can add 50,000 locations, it won't matter unless the requests actually get routed to the closest location.
The article basically says "hey, we have no control where it is routed to". I have a CF location which is about 20 miles away and I always get routed to a location that is 280 miles away and this article and the response in CF community forum basically says "Nothing to do with us".
I technically get this, but then they shouldn't advertise it in such misleading ways.
https://community.cloudflare.com/t/peering-why-dont-i-reach-...
Should provide interesting metrics for which ISPs suck hardest. How much of this data can be aggregated and made public?