Why is my site coming from California?!

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?

Response

Hi there

Gualter here, happy to assist! It looks like you're records aren't configured to proxy through Cloudflare, but rather passthrough DNS only: https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/concepts/how-cloudflare-works/#dns-only-record-example

As such, we're unable to use our Anycast network and rely on your origin server (in this case the single server located in the EU).

I believe the best course of action here is to change your configuration to properly leverage Cloudflare's anycast network.

Let me know if this helps!
Gualter

Rationale

I made a few assumptions since I didn't have much time to peruse the docs. By proxying requests, one can leverage Cloudflare's network and global CDN instead of relying on the origin's server alone.