Hosting company(ies) to host XF for US members
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Adam Howard
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Amazon has a very affordable CDN. They call it "Amazon CloudFront"
http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront
Amazon also has a very affordable AnyCast DNS. They call it, Route 53.
http://aws.amazon.com/route53
Now if their hosting was more economical... I'd have a new host. lol
emmy
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what about if the traffic of your site will be coming from allover the countries - where would you position your server, i mean if it will be best to use cloud hosting vs nginx?
WSWD
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Neither of those will make a difference as far as geography is concerned. That's where a CDN can come in handy.
craigiri
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Texas and Chicago are fairly central. But my bigger site had the server in Philadelphia and my Pacific Northwest moderators thought it was plenty quick. Still, 75% of my traffic was from the northeast and mid-atlantic and upper midwest, so my server was closer to all of them (within about 1,000 miles).
"According to the volumes of Internet traffic information collected at Google, a 250 millisecond speed advantage between competing websites will cause web users to abandon the slowpoke site in favor of the just-barely-perceptibly-faster alternative."
"According to the volumes of Internet traffic information collected at Google, a 250 millisecond speed advantage between competing websites will cause web users to abandon the slowpoke site in favor of the just-barely-perceptibly-faster alternative."
emmy
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Thanks - But does it matter the server you have your DNS hosted on - I have mine hosted on Godaddy and database on hostgator
I don't know which of these causing the slowness in loading - I was thinking CDN matters alot more than where you host your datas hosted per speed/content??
I don't know which of these causing the slowness in loading - I was thinking CDN matters alot more than where you host your datas hosted per speed/content??
craigiri
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Google pagespeed and other such services will show you exactly what amount of time each part takes. DNS is usually not the culprit.
I've never used a CDN - lots of folks here have had little burps and problems with the free ones. If I was ever to use one, I'd spend the bucks and make sure the company did it right.
My site has done quite well with one server...for about 15 years. If I were serving a very image-heavy site, I might use a CDN or at least a graphics repository. It all depends on your mission.
Most people would do better concentrating on getting more members and their actual business...than trying to squeeze every bit of performance out of the software. It all depends on what your biz model is...
I've never used a CDN - lots of folks here have had little burps and problems with the free ones. If I was ever to use one, I'd spend the bucks and make sure the company did it right.
My site has done quite well with one server...for about 15 years. If I were serving a very image-heavy site, I might use a CDN or at least a graphics repository. It all depends on your mission.
Most people would do better concentrating on getting more members and their actual business...than trying to squeeze every bit of performance out of the software. It all depends on what your biz model is...
WSWD
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As @MattW said...not necessarily. The issue a lot of our clients have run into using a CDN (especially CloudFlare) is that it's often times quicker to go to the server itself, instead of through the CDN's server, so some people will actually see a performance DECREASE. Where you are generally likely to see the benefits of the CDN is in other countries.
It is unlikely that DNS is where the delays are occurring. That's SO rare, but it certainly can happen, especially with somebody like GoDaddy, where their DNS servers are very likely overloaded.
MattW
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Both CDN77 and CDN.net caused my sites to ultimately load slower. Their system was serving most of my content from their US locations, despite most of my members and server being in the UK. They both use the same onapp system (couldn't have the same cdn name on both systems). I've still got $103 in credit on my cdn.net account, and $45 expired with cdn77 as you need to top up every 12 months.
emmy
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So@MattW - what do you recommend to host xenforo - I am more concerned about speed and i am very mindful about cost
full nginx / PHP-FPM ? Since your site is hosted on this
MattW
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Yes, this is always going to be my recommendation now. I also recommend putting it behind HTTPS, so you can use the SPDY protocol to speed up transport even more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDYSo@MattW - what do you recommend to host xenforo - I am more concerned about speed and i am very mindful about cost
full nginx / PHP-FPM ? Since your site is hosted on this
If you want to go with a VPS, then I'd look at Linode, and put it in one of their US locations. @eva2000 is currently running https://community.centminmod.com with them.
emmy
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Thanks MattW
Forsaken
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http://vultr.com is another option for a VPS, and cheaper than Linode.
I'm working on a project that uses one of their VPS, and I've had no issues with it whatsoever.
MattW
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I've seen them previously. Looks like a DigitalOcean clone from their website design, but have read good reviews, and they have a lot more locations.
eva2000
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Yup liking Linode VPS for performance to price ratio see stats at https://community.centminmod.com/pages/mstats/
And Linode Longview at https://community.centminmod.com/th...inode-for-centmin-mod-installs.109/#post-1439
Forsaken
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Eh... Digital Ocean wasn't the first service of their type, and the designs are similar, but so are the most designs used by hosting companies.
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