Hi all,
I'm looking for ways to optimize my web-site performance. Currently its pain stakingly slow. And I'm tring to understand the potential tradeoffs and benefits of adding a content delivery service to my server.
The question which I need help on is this.
Should I buy more servers in the future OR should I keep the same one and use a Content delivery service company to help us out.
Also, does anyone know how CDS companies charge?
Thanks for all your help:)

sarun,

what is slow about your site? cgi, images?

Originally posted by Xswap
sarun,

what is slow about your site? cgi, images?

My site has 2 problems
1) 90% of the pages has Perl scripts
2) Bandwidth of current connection is only 64K leased line.
(I'm hosted in Thailand and a 64 K connection costs $1,500/month, 1MB connection costs $50,000/ month!!! )
I have around 3million page views per month. Current load time at peak hours is from 5-10 mins/page!

So I'm thinking of finding a hosting service in the US and also looking at content delivery service but I'm not sure which is the best alternative.
So I would appreaciate some advice from all the experts in this forum.
Thanks

Wow 3 million page views per month and a 64k line don't add up. That would explain your problem.

The content delivery service will only help with images and HTML pages. Script execution would remain the same as far as I know.

I would strongly suggest you find a new host. If I understand correctly you are paying $1500 monthly. You could get a few dedicated servers for that price in the US. The one thing you would need to look into is your bandwidth consumption. There are other people on this board that could probably help you with that as well as other hosting dedicated options.

I would defiantly find another host though that would put your site / server on a non capped Ethernet connection, then pay for the bandwidth you use.

Sorry I can not be of more help.

Originally posted by sarun
So I'm thinking of finding a hosting service in the US...

At 5-10 minutes a page and $1,500 for a 64K connection (this has GOT to be a conversion typo???), you shouldn't even think of getting a new host. You should just do it.

Just as an example, tera-byte offers a 128K line for under $100/mo. I'm sure many other hosts here could offer you the same (or similar).

Check the Dedicated Forum as I think you'll be able to find some recommendations there as to some places to lease a server. That is really out of control.

Originally posted by Chicken
Originally posted by sarun
So I'm thinking of finding a hosting service in the US...

At 5-10 minutes a page and $1,500 for a 64K connection (this has GOT to be a conversion typo???), you shouldn't even think of getting a new host. You should just do it.

Just as an example, tera-byte offers a 128K line for under $100/mo. I'm sure many other hosts here could offer you the same (or similar).

Check the Dedicated Forum as I think you'll be able to find some recommendations there as to some places to lease a server. That is really out of control.
Hi, Chicken
I appreciate your comment a lot. I really wish that you were right about the typo but in Thailand thats the going rate check this link out. This is the company that I am using. $ 1 = Baht 40. 64k = Baht 54,000 or $1350!!!
http://www.cscoms.com/service/highspeed.html
I'm looking in to your suggestion about going dedicated in the USA and the one company which seems to be welll liked here is DI. If I host with them what is the connection speed that I will get?
Thanks for all your help

sarun, i would suggest checking with a host like http://www.digitalnation.net/ or http://www.rackspace.com/ since they don't use the 95% method of bandwidth measuring, which could save you a lot.

Originally posted by JTY
sarun, i would suggest checking with a host like http://www.digitalnation.net/ or http://www.rackspace.com/ since they don't use the 95% method of bandwidth measuring, which could save you a lot.
Yep Thanks for the recommendation. I contacted DN but I really dodn't like their sales guy. But I'll look in to Rackspace.
Is there any trade-off in having a server in the USA and 90% of the traffic is from Asia?
Thanks agian

Sarun,

Considering the cost of bandwidth in Asia/Australia et. al., there really is little trade-off if you host your site on RackSpace or on any other North American server. Sure, it might be a bit slower than accessing local servers, but the lower costs and the reliability outweigh the other 'issues' one may have.

Originally posted by BC
Sarun,

Considering the cost of bandwidth in Asia/Australia et. al., there really is little trade-off if you host your site on RackSpace or on any other North American server. Sure, it might be a bit slower than accessing local servers, but the lower costs and the reliability outweigh the other 'issues' one may have.
BC
I'm going to America! Do you know the kind of connection that I will get if I host it at Rackspace?
Thanks agian

<<Admin notice>> - since this topic is moving into a discussion about RackSpace, it's been moved to the Dedicated/Co-Lo forum.

If you do a search of this forum for Rackspace, you'll find plenty of discussions on them.

They have multiple backbone connections running to their servers and network operation centres, and have fault-redundant software/hardware to ensure everything stays up.

Rackspace has a solid connection. Goodness, I almost hate to bring this up (and believe me it is for no other reason than example only), but fresh in my noodle: bluezebrahosting is based at rackspace. Did a traceroute while talking with them and found that out. I'm sure there are many more here, and a seach for rackspace should turn up other hosts that are based there. A quick email to them asking how they like things over there might be useful (if hosts respond to that type of question, maybe not).