Cloudflare Page Rules for Multi-Region Content Delivery

Cloudflare's free tier is remarkably powerful for multi-region content delivery. Here's how I configured it for TopVideoHub , serving users across 9 Asia-Pacific regions. The Setup TopVideoHub serves trending video content from US, GB, JP, KR, TW, SG, VN, TH, and HK. Users are distributed across these regions, so we need: Low latency to Asian cities (Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Hong Kong) SSL without origin certificates DDoS protection on a budget Cloudflare's free tier provides all of this. SSL Configuration: Flexible Mode Our origin server (shared hosting) doesn't have a Let's Encrypt certificate. We use Cloudflare's Flexible SSL mode: Client <--HTTPS--> Cloudflare <--HTTP--> Origin This gives users HTTPS without requiring any SSL setup on the origin server. The gotcha: you must handle the redirect loop. Without special handling, your server sees HTTP requests and tries to redirect to HTTPS, which goes through Cloudflare, which sends HTTP to origin, which redirects again... infinite loo