.smugmug site fast - domain name slow

Daniel DerkacsDaniel Derkacs Registered Users Posts: 5 Beginner grinner
edited February 5, 2009 in SmugMug Pro Sales Support
Just pulling together everything for my transition to Smugmug and I'm very pleased thus far. However, http://derkacs.smugmug.com is about 10x faster to load than my linked domain http://www.derkacsphotography.com.

Any thoughts?

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2009
    wave.gif welcome

    Read this thread http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=117668 and the links in the first post - you'll see :D

    Hang tight, all will be fast, soon.
    Andy

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  • Daniel DerkacsDaniel Derkacs Registered Users Posts: 5 Beginner grinner
    edited January 26, 2009
    Andy wrote:
    wave.gif welcome

    Read this thread http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=117668 and the links in the first post - you'll see :D

    Hang tight, all will be fast, soon.

    This is unbelievably awesome. Haven't heard of Akamai. I knew there was some kind of trick to getting Smugmug so fast. 3 things made me *for the first time* buy a website instead of using an open source solution. 1. Decently customizable w/css. 2. Ability to sell downloads only if you want. 3. A site that you can actually look at your pictures instead of waiting for your scripts to get through.

    Impressive work. I'd love to chat with the programmers.
  • bwgbwg Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,119 SmugMug Employee
    edited January 26, 2009
    Daniel Derkacs wrote:
    Impressive work. I'd love to chat with the programmers.

    We're usually hanging around the forums if you have a question. Complaints however are always directed at Andy :D

    Glad you're enjoying SmugMug and welcome aboard.
    Pedal faster
  • Daniel DerkacsDaniel Derkacs Registered Users Posts: 5 Beginner grinner
    edited February 5, 2009
    Well,
    It's been a couple of weeks and I can't even get derkacsphotography.com to load at home.

    Any further thoughts

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  • Daniel DerkacsDaniel Derkacs Registered Users Posts: 5 Beginner grinner
    edited February 5, 2009
    Daniel Derkacs wrote:
    If you have an A record pointed at your site, it will now need to point to 208.79.45.23 . We have instructions that will apply to most users on our wiki. PLEASE NOTE that using an A record will result it a much slower site than using a CNAME, since we're able to dramatically accelerate CNAME'd sites. Also, we may need to change IP addresses again sometime in SmugMug's future, so using a CNAME is both the safest and fastest option.

    I guess I have to delete the A record.
  • docwalkerdocwalker Registered Users Posts: 1,867 SmugMug Employee
    edited February 5, 2009
    Daniel,

    You do not need to delete the A record. You have it set right

    If the domain is not loading at home, something else may be blocking you. The domain is working for me.

    The domain tools that I have show that it is correctly setup.

    Please let me know what you are seeing when you try the domain. That might explain what is wrong.

    --Doc
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    http://help.smugmug.com
  • Daniel DerkacsDaniel Derkacs Registered Users Posts: 5 Beginner grinner
    edited February 5, 2009
    Daniel Derkacs wrote:
    I guess I have to delete the A record.

    Yup, that definitely fixed it. I don't really care about the A record - if there's a work around I'll get to it at a later time.

    Before deleting the record, it was just sitting there. My home "high speed" connection seems to multiply anything that takes long to load. The screen would be blank white for minutes even after multiple refreshes.
  • docwalkerdocwalker Registered Users Posts: 1,867 SmugMug Employee
    edited February 5, 2009
    But, does your domain work now without the www in front? Deleting the A record should not have been related.
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