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[ppwill]

Hello,

I'm currently redirecting all pages from my old domain to my new domain by using a htaccess 301 redirect.

The htaccess code I'm using is:

RedirectMatch permanent /.* http://domain.com/

After uploading this file to my domain, my load spiked from 1.34~ to about 8.75~ constant.

I was wondering if there's a more optimized way of implementing this htaccess 301 redirect? To clarify, I want to redirect all pages from my old domain to my homepage on my new domain.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thank you!

[relichost]

Hi

Its doing two lookups for DNS I imagine. not sure if there is any other way.

are the two domains hosted on different servers ?

Thanks

[ppwill]

Yes, both sites are hosted on the same server.

I always thought htaccess was the most efficient way but there's just so much performance lost when using the above htaccess redirect code.

Do you have any suggestions as to what I could try doing to help reduce the load?

Thank you!