POSTS / Cloudflare Proxy makes slower accessing of AliCloud Server

Published: 2024-01-18

as #21 says, using cloudflare as dns server makes it slower to access the alicloud server originally configed. then i give a search and get cloudflare: proxied dns records, which shows that how cloudflare proxies the origin domain/server.

graph LR
  Visitor 
    <-- Connection --> cloudflare[Cloudflare global network] 
    <-- Connection --> server[Origin server]

cloudflare claims that This behavior allows Cloudflare to optimize, cache, and protect all requests to your application, as well as protect your origin server from DDoS attacks. however, adding one step to access the origin server does make it take more time to wait. then i switched the proxy status to dns only and everything from the origin alicloud server came fluent again. 😄