BREAKING: Cloudflare Network Performance Issues in Asia Pacific Region – Immediate Workarounds

Cloudflare is experiencing network performance degradation across Asia Pacific. Critical workarounds and monitoring steps for indie hackers affected by this infrastructure incident.

BREAKING: Cloudflare Asia Pacific Network Issues – What You Need to Know

Status: Monitoring | Severity: Medium | Last Updated: Now

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1. What's Down & Who's Affected

Cloudflare is reporting network performance degradation across the Asia Pacific region. This primarily impacts:

Users in Australia, Singapore, Japan, India, and surrounding countries

Projects using Cloudflare's CDN, DNS, or DDoS protection

API requests routed through APAC edge locations

Static asset delivery (images, CSS, JS files)

Not affected: US, EU, and Middle East regions appear normal at this time.

Cloudflare's official status page shows this is still under investigation. Response times and latency are elevated; some requests may timeout or experience 5XX errors.

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2. Immediate Workarounds (Act Now)

For Your Users:

Enable Failover DNS: If you control DNS, add a secondary nameserver pointing to a backup provider (Route53, Gandi, Namecheap)

Cache Aggressively: Increase Cloudflare cache TTL temporarily to 24 hours via dashboard → Caching → Browser Cache TTL

Bypass Cloudflare: Point DNS directly to your origin server's IP as a temporary fallback

Communicate: Post status on Twitter/Discord immediately. Transparency kills panic.

For Your Infrastructure:

Check if origin servers are receiving traffic spikes from retry storms

Enable rate limiting on origin to prevent cascading failures

Monitor origin server CPU/memory—failed CDN requests may overwhelm backends

Consider activating a secondary CDN (Bunny, Fastly) for APAC traffic

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3. Check If Your Project Is Affected

Run these checks now:

```bash

Test from APAC region (use VPN or online tools)

curl -w "@curl-format.txt" -o /dev/null -s https://yoursite.com

Check DNS resolution

dig yoursite.com +short

Trace route to edge

mtr -c 100 yoursite.com

Monitor real-time

watch -n 1 'curl -o /dev/null -s -w "%{time_total}\n" https://yoursite.com' ```

Symptoms: Latency >1000ms, 522/524 errors, incomplete asset loads, timeouts.

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4. Alternative Tools to Consider

Don't panic-migrate, but have these ready:

| Tool | Best For | Notes | |------|----------|-------| | Bunny CDN | Budget-friendly global CDN | Excellent APAC coverage, $0.01/GB | | AWS CloudFront | Integrated AWS stack | Fast setup, reliable | | Fastly | High-performance CDN | Premium, great for API | | Netlify/Vercel | Static sites | Built-in edge, no setup | | Route53/Gandi DNS | DNS failover | Instant secondary DNS |

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5. How to Monitor Recovery

Official channels:

Cloudflare Status: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com

Subscribe to email alerts (do this now)

Follow @Cloudflare on Twitter for updates

Self-monitoring:

Set up Pingdom/UptimeRobot alerts for your domain from APAC regions

Use Cloudflare's Analytics dashboard → Performance metrics

Monitor your origin server logs for traffic patterns

Expected recovery: Cloudflare typically resolves regional issues within 2-4 hours. Check back in 30 minutes.

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Bottom Line

This is not a full outage—APAC-specific performance degradation. Your site likely works, but slower. Use the workarounds above, communicate with users, and monitor recovery. Redundancy wins outages.

Stay calm. This resolves.

Keep us posted in the comments.