Load balancing

TriedandTested · 29 Jun 2009 at 10:52

Would enabling (paying) for this option speed up access to a domain? One I'm accessing seems a bit slow currently and I'm on a fast connection.

Thanks,

Dj_Jestar · 29 Jun 2009 at 10:57

how busy is the domain? If it's just crap coding/routing.. it'll still suck.

GravyMonster · 29 Jun 2009 at 11:26

Yeah load balancing only gives an ROI if you're getting thousands of hits a second, or if you're doing some pretty processor intensive stuff on the server (like video encoding from uploaded content etc) although tbh if it's the latter you shouldnt be doing that on the public server anyway.

Beansprout · 29 Jun 2009 at 11:32

I presume you mean loading the site is slow, rather than the DNS servers are underperforming?

If so, ask your host - they should have a good idea of what to do

Once had a query from a client about why certain pages took 30s+ to load. I fixed it by adding two indexes to their moderately-sized database!