By James
Hi all Im experiencing really slow initial response to DNS/website requests. Just finished up migrating a WP site on a Debianx32 LEMP stack droplet and everything is working ‘fine’ except for when i do a speed test.
The initial GET request to the DNS takes on average 3-5 seconds to complete. The overall page loadtime becomes 3 seconds longer than it should be… Actual Page load time: 5.24s Total page size: 1.12MB Total number of requests: 60
Page load time should ideally be ~ 2 seconds at the minimum…
atleast it was on a previous shared hosting account… i expected/hoped that ssd and closer datacenter to be at or below a shared host.
Any ideas on how i can tweek/troubleshoot this?
Ive tried with and without cloudflare CDN to see if i can speed it up but it makes no difference.
the dns are current set to google and level3 as a backup
Why the severe latency/slow reponse?
Thanks for any suggestions…
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Hi ryan… thanks for the suggestion
I edited the /etc/resolv.conf file and removed level3 dns… i now show… nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4 Saved and exited… do i have to restart networking or are the results live as soon as i save?
pinging shows it working ping -c 1 google.com
but unfortunately the speedtest still shows initial DNS lookup taking nearly 310ms ~ 3 seconds…which is more than it takes to load the rest of the site =(
Really confused… is there anything else i can investigate to try to resolve this issue?
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