Exadra37

Exadra37

Server location vs load time for the end user

Your users of the two forums are spread across the world, thus I am curious how did you solved it?

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AstonJ

AstonJ

If you have an international user base look for a provider with a multi-redundant network connected to key Internet exchanges, tho in fairness most good data centres will be. So the other thing you can do is on the hardware side, with things like an SSD and enough RAM.

ioping on two servers, one with SSDs and the other with standard HDs (both configured in a RAID array with the same number of drives each):

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ioping -RD -w 10 .

--- . (ext4 /dev/md2) ioping statistics ---
112.1 k requests completed in 9.48 s, 437.9 MiB read, 11.8 k iops, 46.2 MiB/s
generated 112.1 k requests in 10.0 s, 437.9 MiB, 11.2 k iops, 43.8 MiB/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 53.2 us / 84.6 us / 6.10 ms / 45.5 us

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ioping -RD -w 10 .

--- . (ext4 /dev/md2) ioping statistics ---
11.8 k requests completed in 9.92 s, 46.1 MiB read, 1.19 k iops, 4.65 MiB/s
generated 11.8 k requests in 10.0 s, 46.1 MiB, 1.18 k iops, 4.61 MiB/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 147.7 us / 840.6 us / 163.3 ms / 2.71 ms

However standard SSDs and enough RAM is fine for most applications. What will be interesting (for me at least) is to see how they differ with a LiveView app (which I can’t wait to do! :lol:)

Exadra37

Exadra37

This doesn’t solve the problem for the users that are distant from the server.

Let’s say this forum is hosted in UK and I am accessing it from Brazil, Africa, Australia, Japan, etc, it will be slow for sure, but usable I think.

Exadra37

Exadra37

Don’t bet on it. The speed of light is not that fast for internet across huge distances and many hops(routers).

Even people from the pacific ocean side of United States will experience latency when visiting a complex/heavy sites hosted in Europe.

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