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by w0ts0n 1050 days ago
Users in Egypt are unable to visit my Fitness website https://musclewiki.com

Cloudflare is a huge part of the internet. Often they won't respond and it appears that for whatever reason, their IP range is blocked in Egypt. We probably get 10 support emails per week. I contacted Cloudflare and they simply said there is nothing they can do.

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Sounds like you should stop using Cloudflare
I'm surprised to hear that. I actually used Cloudflare Tunnel to connect to a corporate intranet about 8 months ago while in Egypt, not sure if things have changed though.
If you don’t want to stop using CloudFlare or need a temporary solution ask your users from Egypt to use VPN- many already do as they come across similar problems for other services
Egypt do block VPNs in much more aggressive way than Cloudflare. Also this is my first time to hear that cloudflare is blocked in Egypt. People will even complain that they cannot connect to their cooperate VPNs.

Blocking cloudflare ip addresses means that half of the internet wouldn't be accessible from Egypt. its closw to blocking port 443 because some people use DNS over https.

disclaimer: I'm Egyptian living in the US.

Have someone in Egypt look at our site. Its been blocked for about 3 months.

Apparently there is a pool of IP's that Cloudflare use for their CDN and some of them are blocked in Egypt. If you are unlucky enough to be one of the websites that is using that IP, it's blocked. Apparently they rotate them, but I haven't seen it yet, so chances are, when they do rotate them, more will be blocked.