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Note from 14 April 2022

  • Nicolas Hoizey
  • 14 April 2022
  • Netlify, WebPerf
  • 1 reaction

TIL: Configure an apex domain on #Netlify

the apex domain can’t take advantage of direct DNS routing on a global CDN like @Netlify’s

I guess I now understand why my photography site was slow from France…

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  1. Nicolas Hoizey avatar Nicolas Hoizey
    It looks like Apex as Alias or A record, and subdomain as CNAME record, give all the same bad and unstable TTFB from France for @Netlify sites. 😞TTFB from @Cloudflare is much more fast and stable, as this @SpeedCurve graph shows…
    • 19 April 2022, 09:03
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