why speed of populer sites is high?

razahasnain · 30th December 2003, 09:54 PM

hello to every one
i have a question can you help ?
when we are using our pc as a server why speed of serving is very slow with only 3 or 4 visitor at a time but speed of other sites is high like this site or like yahoo and hotmail with thousand of users at a time?
does speed of site depend upon bandwith what is their bandwith?

**Mr. Tech** · 31st December 2003, 07:33 AM

Welcome to the forums!

hmmmm.... that is a good question... :?

I don't think it depends on the bandwidth but how well the site and its graphics are optimized.

cougarhosting · 31st December 2003, 04:22 PM

It's a mixture of a lot of things....

Bottle necks everywhere are possible:

1. the site may be using a lot of server side code and has not been optimized to handle it
2. the server does not have a lot of ram or a slow processor
3. the backbone to the internet may be slower then a OC3 connection

not to metion as above the site may be poorly designed.

razahasnain · 1st January 2004, 01:41 AM

hello,

thank you mr. tech and mr. cougarhosting for your ideas.
now if we want to have sites with high speed on our own PC like populer sites for example hotmail and yahoo, what should we do? what sohould we consider about or PC, our internet connection,technology used and programming etc.

HAPPY NEW YEAR
good bye

**Mr. Tech** · 1st January 2004, 09:35 AM

It's always good to have a fast internet connection like broadband and it is also good to have plenty of hard drive space and plenty of memory on your computer. :wink:

razahasnain · 2nd January 2004, 03:00 AM

in the name of god

hi,
mr. tech thank you for your opinions. can you give me more details?
how much should be speed of the brodband connection?
how uch should be my hard drive space?
how much should be my processor's speed and how uch should be my RAM?

thank you
good bye

**Mr. Tech** · 2nd January 2004, 08:51 AM

I don't have broadband so I don't really know... i think they are all the same :wink:

With the hard drive and ram, it all depends on how much room you have used up on your computer. If your hard drive is nearly full, it would be a good idea to add another hard drive.

This you would have to talk to a local computer company or the people who created your computer.

PY 222 · 13th January 2004, 06:15 AM

It wouldn't be a good idea to host websites on your local machine if you are very new to it.

There are alot of variables that you need to take care of when hosting. Most importantly is security. With services running on your machine and without the proper patches, you are asking for trouble.

Shared hosting are very cheap these days. Just look at the ad forum here.