Improving connection time for Object Storage

[midnight-wonderer]

The browser connection to https://<bucket>.s3.<region>.cloud.ovh.net is painfully slow.

I already submitted the ticket; I discovered this channel shortly after; I supposed here is the more appropriate place for suggestions.

This is about the existing Swift object storage with S3-compatible endpoints, not the upcoming product. From my browser, it took around 1.5-2.0 seconds to fetch 60 KiB images. Making the website painfully slow overall.

While I won't judge what's underneath, there is a couple of simple things OVH can do to improve the connection speed.

• First, the TLS is misconfigured. OVH servers send the anchor (root certificate) along with the certificate chain. By configuring the certificate chain properly, the connection time can be improved a bit.
• Second, since one of the common use cases for the s3 bucket is to store user-uploaded images, it'd be great if OVH could enable HTTP/2 on https://<bucket>.s3.<region>.cloud.ovh.net so the perceived load time can be improved.
• Third, The DNS resolution time is awful; it took around 600 ms from here with a reputable recursive resolver just to resolve the hostname. Can OVH do something about it? How about geo-distributed DNS solutions?