Your site is reachable in Russia
If your site sits behind Cloudflare and Russian visitors wait 10–12 seconds for it to load, the problem is not your server. Since June 2025 Cloudflare-fronted traffic is throttled to 16 KB per connection inside Russia. We have edge nodes in Moscow and St Petersburg — and in Amsterdam — which is the one thing Bunny, Gcore and Fastly can't offer. Below: what happens, how the fix works, the steps and the price.
The problem, in numbers
A page that loads in 800 ms elsewhere takes about 12 seconds for a Russian visitor behind Cloudflare. The cause is a 16 KB-per-connection throttle applied to Cloudflare in Russia since June 2025; ECH has been blocked since 2024, and Cloudflare was added to the ORI registry in early 2025. What it means for your metrics: your Russian traffic share falls in analytics — not because those visitors left, but because the site was too slow to load for them.
How the fix works
DNS points at our proxy in Moscow and St Petersburg, which forwards to your origin; for the rest of the world, the Amsterdam node does the same. Russian visitors reach your site through nodes inside Russia, so the 16 KB throttle no longer applies to them.
You don't have to remove Cloudflare to do this. We can sit alongside it as a second provider — the multi-CDN setup many teams adopted after the November 18, 2025 Cloudflare outage that took sites down for hours. One provider handles Russia, the other the rest.
The steps
- Export your zone records from Cloudflare.
- Create the zone in our DNS hosting, move the records over and verify them with the DNS record checker — mail records especially.
- Enable proxying on the records you want behind our nodes, with SSL between the proxy and your origin.
- Lower your DNS TTL a day ahead, then change the nameservers at your registrar.
Don't promise yourself a fixed time — propagation depends on your TTL, nothing else.
Price
From $45/mo . Cloudflare Pro is $20–25 and Business $200–250 — we sit between them, and the reason is concrete: nodes inside Russia, which the cheaper global CDNs don't have. Full pricing is on the pricing page. Foreign companies pay by invoice — contact us and we'll confirm the method that fits.
FAQ
Why is my Cloudflare site slow in Russia? Since June 2025 Cloudflare-fronted traffic is throttled to about 16 KB per connection inside Russia. A page that used to load in 800 ms now takes around 12 seconds. It is not your server or your code.
Do I have to drop Cloudflare? No. You can route Russian visitors through our edge nodes in Moscow and St Petersburg and keep Cloudflare for the rest of the world — we work as a second provider, the multi-CDN setup many teams adopted after the November 18, 2025 outage.
Will this change my analytics? Likely for the better. Your Russian traffic share often drops not because visitors left but because pages were too slow to load; routing that traffic through nodes inside Russia brings it back.
How do foreign companies pay? By invoice. Contact us and we will confirm the method that fits your company.
How long does the switch take? Only as long as your DNS TTL. Lower it a day before you switch nameservers and the change propagates in minutes.
The short version: Cloudflare throttles your site to 16 KB per connection in Russia, so it crawls there. Point Russian traffic through our Moscow and St Petersburg nodes — keep Cloudflare for the rest if you like — and the site loads normally again. From $45/mo , and the only thing that gates the switch is your DNS TTL.