How does Cloudflare's Anycast network relate to the lack of a fixed IPv4 address for Pages?

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How does Cloudflare's Anycast network relate to the lack of a fixed IPv4 address for Pages?
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Cloudflare's Anycast network is the reason why Cloudflare Pages doesn't have a fixed IPv4 address. Anycast distributes your content across multiple servers globally, each with a different IP address. When a user requests your site, Cloudflare's Anycast network intelligently routes the request to the nearest server, resulting in a consistently fast and reliable experience, regardless of the server's specific IP address. This dynamic routing makes a fixed IP address unnecessary and impractical.