Posted by Benjamin Niemann on 11/20/40 11:44

John Salerno wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, is it normal for a web host to take a few hours
> to create a subdomain? 1and1 takes about 3 hours, but the other host I
> was using created it immediately.

1&1 is a pretty large hoster and I would not even try to estimate how many
requests they get that require a change of the DNS or apache configuration.
My guess is that in order to reduce the load on their systems they queue up
such requests and commit these in bulk every few hours.

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Benjamin Niemann
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