Changing Servers
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Blog, Freelance, Programming, Website Design by adminGot a new server today!
All of the sites we do switched from a shared 1.3 ghz 256mb single core intel server to a massive 2.66 ghz 4gb Quad-Core fully dedicated.
I didn’t realize what an improvement the sites would have on a dedicated server. Load times are cut in half and everything is consistent.
With a shared server I would constantly have a load time of 30-45 seconds every one out of ten times loading a page. I feel like it was getting “hung up” on something. So I checked the Net tab in firebug
and found it was taking the entire time to get a response from the server.
I don’t know if it was especially bad because of godaddy or what. I read another article that i researched and found to be true about godaddy. Their virtual dedicated java interface to help manage the server takes up ~200-225 mb of memory to run leaving less than ~30 mb to run the server. That is Ridiculous!
I can chalk all this up to learning experience. Yes, a dedicated server cost more (almost x3) but it pays for itself in the sense that I can provide faster sites to my clients which provides them with a better experience resulting ultimately in more business.