I run a simple Wordpress project which make a large collection of YouTube videos searchable and then displays them as embeds/iframes. It's run on a simple shared hosting at Digital Ocean with Cloudflare and their APO in front. I am based in Europe as is the server at DO. The majority (90% ) of the traffic comes from the USA/Canada. The cache rate is about 99.7% as the content (video pages) barely changes.

My question is: Would visitors in USA/Canada see a big improvement in load times if I move my server to a NA-based datacenter? Or does Cloudflare and the high cache rate already move my content as close as possible to American/Canadian visitors?

CodePudding user response：

The main objective of a CDN when caching static content is to move the content closer to your visitors and speeding up the performance as a result.

With a 99.7% cache rate, your users are already downloading content from a Cloudflare datacenter close to them in the majority of the scenarios.

The North American based users would benefit from a NA-based DC only for requests that are a cache MISS: in such cases, they would be fetching the content from the Digital Ocean origin in Europe. Based on your numbers this is a very little proportion of your traffic.