In my experience building http://instantdomainsearch.com/ http://instantdomainsearch.com/ I found that the "slow" part was actually the network round-trip to th

In my experience building http://instantdomainsearch.com/ http://instantdomainsearch.com/ I found that the "slow" part was actually the network round-trip to the server. WebSockets don't make packets move across the network any faster. We came up with a way to select the closest/fastest server when you first visit the site: http://instantdomainsearch.com/articles/faster_domain_name_search/ http://instantdomainsearch.com/articles/faster_domain_name_s... This works well, but I think I'll switch to Amazon's Route 53 (DNS) implementation now that it can do failover.