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| Posted by keith007, 10-05-2010, 12:07 PM |
| Hi,
I have a dedicated server with one web site on thats only html statice pages
I have tested the server load in loadimpact-com with 30 clients and get around 0.938ms for a page to load up
Is there a way to get the page to load quicker or is that the max possible
Server is xeon 2.6ghz (dual core) 4gb ram, Top load during loadimpact is 0.3 0.3 0.2 and 0.3% io, network is 100mb port
Cheers
Keith
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| Posted by care4server, 10-05-2010, 12:38 PM |
| try setting up nginx
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| Posted by quad3datwork, 10-05-2010, 01:04 PM |
| You can also setup nginx as reverse proxy so you don't have to mess with anything you have now. Just for testing purposes. You will see speed improve quite a bit.
I did that long time ago and pushed into full production with it... never looked back.
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| Posted by keith007, 10-05-2010, 01:13 PM |
| I would of thought having a dedi for one static site would of been over kill and speed things up greatly
I get the same speeds on a bottom end vps, just the dedi has no load,
Nginx, how do I set this up, im using Cpanel at present, will it work together
Cheers
Keith
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| Posted by FLDataTeK, 10-05-2010, 02:58 PM |
| That loadimpact is a cool little site.. Thanks for it..
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| Posted by quad3datwork, 10-05-2010, 08:39 PM |
| Check out "HTTP Daemons/Web Servers (Alternative)" section in this page. The forum one is the free scripts a group of people wrote and revised. However, personally I have not tried this on my cPanel servers.
When I said I have nginx reverse proxy in production, it's for several Debian web servers. But getting nginx reverse proxy to work is really easy, just google it.
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| Posted by drspliff, 10-05-2010, 09:58 PM |
| Personally I'd advise Varnish over nginx as a caching reverse proxy, I can't fault nginx... but running as a reverse proxy cache isn't it's main objective. Varnish on the otherhand has been built from the ground up as an extremely high performance caching reverse proxy. Simply put - with varnish in-front it'd be pretty easy to saturate multiple gigabit links if you were only serving cached resources and the box would be running nicely.
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| Posted by surfaces, 10-06-2010, 04:12 AM |
| Did you check you website with the "Page Speed" addon of google?
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| Posted by 24nt7linux, 10-06-2010, 10:30 AM |
| Check the website in http://alertra.com. It will give you response speeds from various parts of the world. Also, try optimizing apache to increase the speed. Lighttpd is another option which has high performance than apache and you could configure it with cpanel without much mess.
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| Posted by UNIXy, 10-06-2010, 07:35 PM |
| Hi Keith,
Here are some recommendations and questions:
1) Enable file compression
2) Install a proxy with aggressive caching (Nginx or Varnish)
3) Bandwidth quality matters here so be sure you're on a low latency link
Regards
Joe / UNIXY
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