Hello Friends. Just setup a new server at home I am not planning on useing it for an Entertainment Website, due to the speed of my connection. But before I dismiss rebuilding my old sucessful website I want to see if it could be possible. I am useing Broadband MAX by Vispa (Good Service, Bad Support) Upstream: 442K; Downstream: upto 8MB; HOW CAN I TEST MY SERVER SPEEDS? I was thinking: Uploading a Large File and asking you guys to say what speeds your getting. Although what speeds concidering acceptable?
that's a very low linespeed for a server. most residential cable providers offer 2-5mb/s down, compared to your less than half a mb up. one single visitor maxing out your line? not a great idea. if it's a super small personal page it may be acceptable, if it's anything else I'd suggest paying 5$/month for a real host.
Upstream: 442K - That is the download speed when accessing from outside. I guess it is going to be pretty slow.
I purchased the server for script development and storage, so i guess it will stay that way. Its odd though as i pages load with lots of images, rollovers loads at 3secs.
Yeah it'll be rubbish, it'll be the speed of light to you, but the rest of the world it'll suck for....
Don't listen to these fools. I've run large sites off of a connection about that speed for a years. You just need to focus on efficiency a little more. My DMOZ mirror pulls in 800-900 uniques a day without breaking a sweat. The system handling all the work is a PIII 900mhz with 512MB ram running win2k pro. Just build your web-site and see how it handles. If it's too slow then start looking for ways to increase your resources. GoDaddy will give you 100GB of space and 1000GB of transfer for $7 a month. The limitation of course that you have less control when don't use your own server. My home server brings in 4-5 times the cost of the internet connection.
Whatever dude, there's no way to run a decent service at that speed, for someone like me on a 16 or even an 8 meg connection it would appear that the site will take all day to load, and thats what matters, if ppl dont see content in 8 seconds they leave.
I like when people tell me I can't do things that I'm currently in fact doing. Sites run slow because they're overloaded with unnecessary graphics and bad code. It is entirely possible to sign up for a $7 a month GoDaddy account and store all the graphics/media there and just serve up the HTML on the home server. That way you still have all the control with your site's logic but the heavy lifting is done with a faster connection. You then just need a DNS server that allows you to set up a subdomain pointing to GoDaddy (or whatever) with the main domain pointing at your home server.