What Determines Fast Web Hosting?

Discussion in 'Web Hosting' started by Bulldog-Designs, Jan 20, 2010.

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    I currently have the business plan from HG, but my websites load pretty slow.

    I'm thinking of upgrading to VPS or dedicated, but I need to know what I'm looking for as far as speed. Does RAM or CPU, etc. determine the speed?

    Thanks,
    BD
     
    Bulldog-Designs, Jan 20, 2010 IP
  2. rohit09

    rohit09 Well-Known Member

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    Look! Bro... just check uptime Guarantee! Or ask them! If you PM me I can give you some VPS hosters names. They are realy recommendable and good!
     
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    the datacenter and the uptime and the network they use
     
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    Higher RAM.................can give you better speed for your website..................
     
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    RHS-Chris Well-Known Member

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    There are many things that can effect the speed of your website. The location of the server compared to you, the datacenter connections, the speed of the port, any of the routers or switches along the way, server hardware itself (if it is being overloaded), even the speed of your DNS servers. This is a good site to test your speeds from around the world:

    http://www.traceroute.org
     
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    Depends on a number of things actually. Things like:

    - How many clients are on a single box.

    - How much tuning of Apache/ MySQL and the other installed server softwares has been done. Are they running something besides Apache like Nginx? (Nginx is usually faster than Apache but a lot of scripts have to have special install instructions to run correctly.)

    - Bandwidth to the net.

    - What type of bandwidth that is. Is it oversold? Is it shared with other servers?

    - Electric power. Are the servers underpowered?
     
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    up time, location of data center, as it is directly involved with the speed of your site.
     
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    Bulldog-Designs Active Member

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