[rydre]

>What you're claiming is false. Cloudflare has over 200 PoPs; in your own name servers, you can use the Cloudflare Resolver's IP (which will be a "close to the user" IP, not 1.1.1.1) to do geotargeting and serve from your closest IP address/server.

What if my server is closer than cloudflare? Why is cloudflare artificially limiting?

[willcipriano]

I use cloudflare precisely because I don't want clients hitting the server directly. That's its entire purpose. For both caching and anti-ddos reasons.

[sprayk]

rydre is specifically talking about the perspective of someone running a non-cloudflare CDN or possibly a site that does their own CDN with DNS rather than anycast because they explicitly don't want to use cloudflare for whatever reason. They are not talking about someone just hosting a site.