Slow on first-time access

[allanpro]

Hi,

I have a Joomla! and Coppermine gallery running on my site http://www.allau.dk. It seems to be loading very slow (sometimes more than 10 seconds before anything happens at all) when you access the site for the first time in a while.

Could anyone please provide me with feed back on how it loads at your end? The site is in Danish and the DNS is hosted at a Danish DNS server. The DNS entries point to the rivan server in Atlanta.

I tried to do the nslookup thing with my DNS server (server ns1.gratisdns.dk) and the first time I did I got this reply:

> server ns1.gratisdns.dk
Default Server:  ns1.gratisdns.dk
Address:  193.88.71.203

> allau.dk
Server:  ns1.gratisdns.dk
Address:  193.88.71.203

DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to ns1.gratisdns.dk timed-out

On my subsequent requests I received the correct IP address within miliseconds.

What can I do to correct this problem? Could this be the reason why my site is loading very slow on first time accesses?

Thanks for all your help.

[Rebel007]

The problem is fairly typical of a DNS issue, but I have to admit I dont know the answer.

It may be worth asking for Jaguar to put the domain on their nameservers and update your settings to that effect just to see if that solves the problem.

[allanpro]

It may be worth asking for Jaguar to put the domain on their nameservers and update your settings to that effect just to see if that solves the problem.

There is no doubt that this would probably help. But there is a problem with that since the Danish Top-Level Domain administrator (for the .dk domains), www.dk-hostmaster.dk, has not approved Jaguar's nameservers. It costs around 800 USD to the approved by them so I guess Jaguar is not interested in that.

The only reason I am using gratisdns.dk for my DNS entries is because of that.

Any other options you can think of?