Cloudflare Announces 10 New Edge Data Centres in India

Cloudflare announces a major expansion of its Indian network with 10 new Points of Presence across Tier 2 cities including Pune, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Kochi and Lucknow — significantly improving performance for Indian users.

Current State of Indian Internet Infrastructure

India has over 700 million internet users but historically most CDN traffic was routed through Mumbai or Delhi PoPs, adding 50-150ms latency for users in other cities. This expansion changes that dramatically.

Expected Latency Improvements

# Before expansion (typical)
User in Pune → Mumbai PoP: ~45ms
User in Kochi → Mumbai PoP: ~80ms
User in Jaipur → Delhi PoP: ~35ms

# After expansion
User in Pune → Pune PoP: ~5ms
User in Kochi → Kochi PoP: ~4ms
User in Jaipur → Jaipur PoP: ~3ms

Impact on Server Administrators

For servers hosted in India, Cloudflare's expansion means:

• Faster cache hit responses for Indian visitors
• Reduced origin server load — more requests served from edge
• Better DDoS mitigation closer to attack sources
• Improved Workers performance for edge computing use cases

Configuration Recommendations

With more PoPs available, increase your Cloudflare cache TTL to take full advantage:

# In Cloudflare dashboard → Caching → Configuration
Browser Cache TTL: 4 hours
Edge Cache TTL: 1 month (for static assets)

# Cache Rules for static assets
*.css, *.js, *.jpg, *.png → Cache Everything → 30 days

Conclusion

This expansion is significant for any business serving Indian users. Our team provides Cloudflare configuration and managed server support across India and 40+ countries.