Title: Performance Difference Between A and CNAME Method?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Performance Difference Between A and CNAME Method?

 *  [markb1439](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markb1439/)
 * (@markb1439)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-difference-between-a-and-cname-method/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m wondering if there is a performance difference between using the A Record
   method and using the CNAME method. In some preliminary testing, we seem to be
   seeing significantly slower loads with the CNAME method (up to 3 seconds for 
   a page that normally takes 1). I’d imagine that CNAME lookups should only take
   a few milliseconds, so I don’t think that would explain it. We’ll continue testing
   but I wanted to ask first if there is any known difference between the performance
   of the two methods.
 * Thanks,
 * Mark

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 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-difference-between-a-and-cname-method/#post-2081562)
 * I don’t know if it’s a known issues, but using a CNAME is one more “hop” to get
   to the right spot.
 * If it’s that much slower, I’d be checking my server over to make sure the cname
   address is pointing to the right spot the first chance it gets.
 *  Thread Starter [markb1439](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markb1439/)
 * (@markb1439)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-difference-between-a-and-cname-method/#post-2081643)
 * Thank you, will check.

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