Doom9 website speed difference

[markrb]

When I read the Server Problem thread I bookmarked the doom9.org address and I kept the www.doom9.org address in my address book. In recent days the www seems to be back, but I found something wierd. The non WWW address is much, much faster. This includes not only web pages, but also files as well.
I just downloaded subrip. Well from www I got an average speed under 1kps. I killed that download after a few minutes. I then used the non WWW site and tried the same file. I got over 10Kps from that address.

To be sure of my findings I retried the download several times all with the same results.

When I do a ping to www.doom9.org I get the address of:
213.113.149.101

When I ping doom9.org I get:
65.43.78.94
Edit: Now doom9.org points to the 213 address and WWW points to a 193 address that is slow, but not as bad as 213.Edit


The difference in speed between these two is very large.

I don't know if this is new info or not or how relavent this info is, but I thought it should be reported.

This relates only to the main site and not the forum.

Mark

[Doom9]

actually, it's not relevant. both urls work in round robin mode, you can get any of the 4 servers. Depending on where you live a server may be faster but we don't do location based load balancing.

[mpucoder]

Doom, you might want to check that. NSLookup shows doom9.org as having 3 addresses (213.113.149.101, 65.43.78.94, and 212.43.217.100) - not the same as round robin, browsers will try them in the order listed. www.doom9.org shows as an alias (CNAME) for different servers on round robin.

[Doom9]

I'm perfectly aware of my setup, after all I did it myself ;) Believe me, it's working as it should (but the 4th server which has been down for so long still doesn't serve the root url). But when I say something about using www.doom9.org rather than doom9.org believe me that I have very good reasons. It's just that I don't want to bore anyone with DNS setup details and that I think this really isn't a matter of public discussions... like hosting plans and statistics. If I want to share something with the public I will..