• Tekhne
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    221 year ago

    No, practically speaking the domain name should have no effect on access time. DNS has so many layers of caching that as long as SOMEONE has accessed the website nearby (including you), the domain lookup will be local and therefore fast.

    Anyway, DNS lookup times, even slow ones, are still not going to be noticable to the end use originally.

    • @[email protected]
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      131 year ago

      No, I meant the instance itself. The server. The one who runs lemmy.ca is here in Canada with me.

      It’s like when playing a game; You choose servers closet to you for the lowest ping time.

      The other reason I neglected to mention was I like to support local. 😎

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        It makes a difference for a game, but it’s not really significant for a website.

        The server load and resources will have a much bigger impact on performances than geographic proximity.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          And you spread that server load by selecting different servers. While what you’re saying is technically true, in a practical sense if everyone picked a more local server that would be one way to achieve what you’re saying.

          • @[email protected]
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            111 months ago

            No because the population is not even close to being uniformly distributed geographically.

            • @[email protected]
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              17 months ago

              you don’t need a uniform distribution. if the server distribution mirrors the population distribution (and why wouldn’t it?), that will still achieve the desired effect.