: Why is a www to no-www redirect so slow? I'm quite new to running a website, and I've recently run my page through some page load time measurements to try and reduce load time. After scaling

@Eichhorn148

Interesting note, thanks. I was using DreamHost's redirect option. I should be looking at handling it via code in .htaccess instead, then?


This is the difference: my site does this redirect quickly on Dreamhost and yours does not. Dreamhost has a setting for this that makes it work quickly. It can be set outside of wordpress using the Dreamhost panel:



To get this:


Log into panel.dreamhost.com/ Click on "Manage domains"
Click the "Edit" button next to your fully hosted domain

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@Martha676

If you wish to speed up the redirect, instead of using DreamHost for your DNS services and adding a site redirect in DreamHost, you might manage your DNS through your domain name registrar (Aust Domains), whose services if you're lucky may use anycast DNS and perform much faster. You would then setup the HTTP redirect in their control panel.



Pricing for shared web hosting is always dependent on requirements - for example, the amount of diskspace required, bandwidth required. Since in reality, you get what you pay for, if you are looking for unlimited diskspace and unlimited bandwidth but also a premium level of performance this will not come cheap however if you work out what you actually need in terms of diskspace and bandwidth and then shop around you might find a premium performance hosting solution that fits your requirements without the high price.

Alternatively Pay-As-You-Go cloud hosting solutions such as Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud etc., can offer high performance for low budget if your diskspace and bandwidth requirements are not excessive.

You could also use a CDN/acceleration service such as CloudFlare to improve your DNS, redirects and site performance.

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