Crosstalk Between Gamespot Servers

I was wondering why the URL periodically changes between www.gamespot.com and uk.gamespot.com. Since you're tracking IPs, then your servers should know country of origin, and keep us connected to the fastest server. For example, U.S. members get faster page-loads when not using UK or AU URLs. I can understand the site-specfic content, but for the vast majority of Gamespot's content, your servers should keep us in-country. The faster pages load, the better for all, including your hardware and bandwidth utilization. It's odd when you live in one country, and when you click your Inbox, you're going to an overseas URL. Same thing for forums.

IE 8.0, but it isn't the browser. It could be geographic location, however. For example, if I click to open my Inbox, if the Status Bar shows "uk." instead of "www.", the time it takes to open is sometimes longer. Not always, but it happens periodically.

Once, when the delay occurred, I quickly went into the Address Bar and changed "uk." to "www." and entered. Page reloaded immediately with "www." displayed.

But the point I'm making is proximity to the server. I'm a lot closer to GS' US server than I am anywhere else, so data flows quicker.

Hey topsemag55 - the uk vs. www only impacts some of the stuff you see (ads might be different, some pieces of content are promoted differently) - you're almost assuredly hitting the same server regardless, so performance shouldn't be an issue. That said, you shouldn't be bounced to the UK version - the next time this happens, can you provide a detailed outline of how it happened? Thanks. megagood

Sure thing, megagood. The next time I notice one has occurred I'll get it to you.

Edit: Why is it whenever you report something it stops happening? :P It was like that in the military: as soon as you reported an equipment problem it vanished.