Comment by stingraycharles
3 months ago
The difference is that Cloudflare has their own high quality network and PoPs everywhere, so the quality is generally even better than P2P.
This is my experience, we are a fully remote world-wide company and we recently migrated away from Tailscale to Cloudflare and it has been much better.
Eh, kind of.
Peering in Europe is such a mess that even Cloudflare can be pretty bad. Sometimes you have to manually calculate "okay, there's a colo in this particular city that will force the correct route if we proxy all our traffic through it ..."