As a result, assets that are not frequently accessed on a node will have to be fetched from our backing store at our data center in San Francisco.
As my sites target people in europe, where I am based, I’d like to have the content served from somewhere in Europe rather than the US to lower latency if requests miss cache. Apart from that it would lower traffic on your network and also be more sustainable. Is this possible?
I just found this very similar request, that got derailed to Netlify Functions: Changing deployment region? The OP was asking for the same feature as I am.
At the moment, we only support changing region for function backed content. For static content, we usually see cache hit ratio of about 70-80% for a site, so after an initial load, the site should most likely be fetched from the nearest location instead of the origin.
But, this is not optimal in some cases probably and we can see that you wish to change the data-center location. While there are no immediate plans to do this, we would add this as a feature request and update if something changes in this area.
Ok, got that. But still this would actually be really important for me.
I see very bad cache hit ratios on my sites on netlify. Especially on lower traffic sites it is quite bad. So either the cache hit ratio or the response time of cache misses have to improve. Otherwise I simply have bad performance for my smaller Europe-targeted sites.
Fortunately, there is an easy answer! Don’t use your bare domain with our load balancer as your primary custom domain, instead for your primary custom domain, use a subdomain set to a CNAME pointing to your sitename.netlify.app - that is all over the world, not in one location
We recommend www.yoursite.com. Then, visitors only one time would go to yoursite.com, where our load balancer in the US will redirect them onto our CDN, where the closest CDN node will answer their request instead. For European visitors, that will be in Frankfurt. For US visitors, it will depend on where they are as we have points of presence on the east and west coasts. For Asia, they’ll go to singapore, and so forth.
