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Possible Lag Issue because of tracking domain or no difference? (3)

01-19-2015 09:32 AM #1 acepowermarketing (AMC Alumnus)
Possible Lag Issue because of tracking domain or no difference?

i bought a domain from Godaddy
1. Godaddy has DNS pointed to my singapore server
2. my singapore server cnames track.xxxx.com to Voluum
3. the domain is used as the tracking link in Voluum
4. this server is on SHARED HOSTING.
5 my landers are on VPS.
6. i did not move the link from shared hosting to VPS because most of my links are already that one.

would this cause any delay or slowdown in terms of loading the page? or rather maybe i should ask how can i make it faster? it could be something i never considered.

01-19-2015 10:22 AM #2 bbrock32 (Administrator)

Technically it shouldn't be a problem.

If you want to speed it up by a little bit use the cloudflare dns instead of godaddy, I've seen some minor improvements in my experience.

01-22-2015 12:14 AM #3 zeno (Administrator)

Quote Originally Posted by xavierfok View Post
i bought a domain from Godaddy
1. Godaddy has DNS pointed to my singapore server
2. my singapore server cnames track.xxxx.com to Voluum
3. the domain is used as the tracking link in Voluum
4. this server is on SHARED HOSTING.
5 my landers are on VPS.
6. i did not move the link from shared hosting to VPS because most of my links are already that one.

would this cause any delay or slowdown in terms of loading the page? or rather maybe i should ask how can i make it faster? it could be something i never considered.
Wait wait, I'm confused here.

Why is your server doing a CNAME operation? Are you using your server as the nameserver for your domain? I.e. at GoDaddy your nameservers are set to ns.myserverdomain.com?

Please no! Bad idea! If you're doing that your severely crippling your DNS infrastructure... You are pointing everything to a single point of failure that's potentially half the world away from your user.

You should use ANY proper DNS service... Route 53, GoDaddy's DNS if they have it, NSOne, DNSMadeEasy, etc. These use Anycast networks where the server that does the CNAME operation is much closer to your user - by a looooong way.

I shudder to think what your DNS resolution times will be if you are indeed using a Singapore-based server as your nameserver.

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