{"id":1500,"date":"2020-06-07T21:35:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T13:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=1500"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T06:48:00","slug":"timeouts-pinging-my-site-on-cloudflare","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/timeouts-pinging-my-site-on-cloudflare","title":{"rendered":"Timeouts pinging my site on Cloudflare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/global.discourse-cdn.com\/cloudflare\/original\/3X\/b\/a\/ba0494992f56deb1a9dab23e6195630ec083cb91.png\" alt=\"Timeouts pinging\" width=\"492\" height=\"164\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Timeouts pinging my site on Cloudflare?<\/h3>\n<p>Cloudflare limits ICMP requests via ping because it can cause too many requests for information. In addition, since Cloudflare broadcasts our IPs via Anycast, a ping is not going to tell you which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudflare.com\/learning\/cdn\/glossary\/data-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Cloudflare datacenter<\/a>\u00a0you are hitting on our network.<\/p>\n<p>If you are having problems with your site, or if you are simply testing performance, please do a\u00a0traceroute\u00a0instead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Please refer to the following article to know more.<br \/>\nKnowledge Base: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/how-does-cloudflare-work\">How does Cloudflare work?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timeouts pinging my site on Cloudflare? Cloudflare limits ICMP requests via ping because it can cause too many requests for information. In addition, since Cloudflare broadcasts our IPs via Anycast, a ping is not going to tell you which\u00a0Cloudflare datacenter\u00a0you are hitting on our network. If you are having problems with your site, or if you are simply testing performance,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[43],"kbtag":[1124,1459],"class_list":["post-1500","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-cloudflare","kbtag-cloudflare","kbtag-timeouts-pinging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6090,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1500\/revisions\/6090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}