Question

I’m in London, but looking at your IPs it shows that you are serving my website from California. Can that be right? Why is that? I thought you were supposed to serve my website from some places close to me?

Answer:

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out to Cloudflare Support.

Yes, the Cloudflare IP will likely show as being in the US, however, Cloudflare utilizes an anycast network so your traffic will likely go to a server nearer to you (depending on your ISP’s peering).

For further information regarding your IP address and Anycast, please refer to this tutorial in our Cloudflare Community: Why does my site return a US IP address?

If you need any further assistance, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Best regards,
Ari Bovolente | Cloudflare Support

Thought Process:

In this case, I've provided an overview of how Cloudflare's network operates, along with a more detailed link containing information about Cloudflare's routing decisions and how they are optimized for performance and reassure the customer of Cloudflare's ongoing support to provide further details if needed.

Tools:

Documentation Resources: For additional information on Cloudflare's network architecture and CDN.