Hello Netlify! Thanks so much for your support. My Netlify subdomain ( focused-wright-67af61.netlify.app ) is performing much better, faster, and more reliably than my primary domain ( https://www.placeflow.net/ ), which I’ve added to my Netlify site via the Netlify UI. In particular: The subdomain…

@sbutler-gh Have you tried delegating DNS directly to Netlify rather than passing it through Cloudflare? What about using NameCheap DNS? Tests such as these might help pinpoint the source of the slow-down.

You’re proxying on Cloudflare? ( www.placeflow.net has the orange cloud icon?), don’t proxy requests trough Cloudflare, make sure the icon is gray. Netlify is a CDN, Cloudflare is a CDN. Using a CDN on top of a CDN is obviously pointless :stuck_out_tongue: FYI; your website is generally slow for me…

Thanks so much Freddy, for taking a look and the feedback! The proxy status on Cloudfare is grey cloud with “DNS only.” Is that okay? Or would it be more sensible to go straight from domain provider to Netlify? Do you have any advice for improving the performance in general — in the context …

Sorry; I thought you might have the orange cloud enabled as you mentioned that you had set SSL in Cloudflare to “Flexible”, this setting only applies for requests proxied through CloudFlare (Aka orange icons). If you don’t have an orange icon next to your records, then you’re not using Cloudflare as…

@sbutler-gh Welcome to the Netlify community. You seem still to be using the old IP address for the Netlify load balancer: |====================== dig A record(s) for ===================== | ------------------------ placeflow.net ------------------------ | ---------- Netlify's old load balancer: 1…

Am I confused here? His domain is www., not the apex. [image] Which is a cname, not an A record?

When using external DNS, the best practice is to have the A record pointing at the Netlify load balancer IP address and the CNAME record for the www subdomain pointing at the Netlify subdomain. [image] Configure external DNS for a custom domain Configure an external DNS provider to poin…

Hi @freddy [image] freddy: Netlify recommends that you point the domain directly to Netlify using their nameservers; if this actually changes anything, I couldn’t say, I havn’t tried. I would say that setting up a domain in Netlify DNS does make the site perform faster. I did this yesterday …

So, I identified one MAJOR issue … I hadn’t updated my CNAME record in Cloudfare, from an older Netlify site for an earlier version (placeflow.netlify.app) to the new Netlify site for the current version ( https://focused-wright-67af61.netlify.app/ ) So basically, the Cloudfare DNS had placeflow.net …

Hi @gregraven , see my response above (my CNAME oversight). Sorry for that. In any case, much appreciate the tip for updating the load balancer. Since I updated the CNAME and the A record (to new load balancer) at the same time, I’m not sure if I can do an isolated test to see about any performanc…

Hi, @sbutler-gh . I tried looking at the subdomain under netlify.app but that site no longer exists: $ curl -svo /dev/null https://focused-wright-67af61.netlify.app/ 2>&1 | egrep '^< ' < HTTP/2 404 < content-length: 0 < server: Netlify < age: 0 < x-nf-request-id: 9aa70a02-ff5d-43c0-a614-b3c5bd2807…

Why is my Netlify default subdomain (e.g. hungry-bob-55512.netlify.app) performing better and faster than my primary domain (e.g. www.mydomain.com)?

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Am I confused here? His domain is www., not the apex.

Which is a cname, not an A record?

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Why is my Netlify default subdomain (e.g. hungry-bob-55512.netlify.app) performing better and faster than my primary domain (e.g. www.mydomain.com)?

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