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Would a website load faster if I use multiple servers?
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 11:06 pm
by froggyboy604
I notice websites like Yahoo, Youtube, and other sites use multiple domains to host their stuff on a website.
Would having one web hosting ftp server for images, and another web server for HTML and PHP, and text files make a website load noticeably faster?
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 12:24 am
by SetoTK
Short answer NO
perhaps if website received alot more traffic but at current page loads are instant anyway
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 1:06 am
by Skeithex
I doubt it, I believe how things load fast depends on your browser and your computer.
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 4:51 am
by froggyboy604
I think it has more to do with your server bandwidth speed and connection quality and how many sites are on a server. I remember when Mxproject was on Dreamhost a few years back. It was slow, and unreliable.
Plus, it also depends on how fast your visitors internet are.
I don't really notice much of a difference (1-5 second difference) when loading websites between Chrome, IE, Avant, and Opera on my PC which is low-end by todays standards (1.8GHz CPU 1GB of RAM) with a few minor tweaks like disabling un-needed startup programs, processes and services I hardly use.
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 3:34 pm
by SetoTK
there are ALOT of variables in page loading
either way both sides :: bandwidth, hardware resources, software performance, configuration
are affected by the above
multiple servers MAY help a websites bandwidth but generally a change in the code will give you a similar performance boost
if a website is 15 mb > great and it's having slow page loads you take out what you don't need if it's 1mb< and it's having slow speeds run from the host fast
website optimisation plays a greater part in web speed than most developers/designers take heed.
Example my site lwnetwork loads within a few seconds because there is nothing to download and well nothing there but thats another matter,
i think i'm going to stop typing there i forgot where i was going wayyyyy to many times