Impact of the distributed access

This week-end we switched for a centralized access to our server in Germany to a distributed access through UK, US, Australia and Germany.

DNS resolution time is just one parameter that makes a website faster. Here is the average RTT to resolve browshot.com (data from APM Cloud Monitor).

Before

After

As expected, countries close to a new access point saw the biggest reduction in RTT.

We are working on making our architecture more distributed and more redundant.