Slow home web server performance?
Few months ago I purchased Netgear ReadyNAS Duo as for my home web server so that I can share photos and videos clips with my sisters who are living in different states. I have just learned how to write some simple web pages and setup my first web server for access. When I try to access my web pages locally (within the same city), I can see everything correctly; web pages/photos/video clips all show up fast. Until last Christmas when I traveled to adjacent state to visit one of my sisters, I tried to access my web pages and found out that all my photos/video clips are taking forever to load. I understand server-client distance is longer now so is there any way I can improve the performance so that my sisters (from different states) can see the photos/videos? How come other web servers (such as Flickr/YouTube) can host photos/videos (with larger file size and longer distance) without performance problem like I do?
Actually I have 10m/2m (down/up) speed (tested) with Verizon Fios internet connection so i think my internet speed is not a problem. In addition, i already tested web pages/photos/video clips locally so there is no problem on the hardware side either. I am just wondering why my photos/video clips can not travel longer distance.
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There are a few possible different reasons.
With a home web server, (let’s say you have a 3Meg speed) you can only upload a maximum of about 600Kb per second. Notice the word maximum. Your upload speed as well as your download speed can go from 0 to max speed any time. If you had a business account with your ISP, you would always have at least 80% of the maximum speed(all depending on your ISP’s policy).
It could be (if you have DSL and a phone) that your filter is bad and you need to get a new one.
Or it may just be that your internet provider really sucks and you need to call them up and have them do something to fix the problem.
Or the way they run their business is any out of state uploading does not need to be fast unless it is a business account.
Try a few things.
edit: Sorry man, that’s an issue you will really have to take up with your ISP. There should be no reason why you can’t have a good access speed just out of state. I was downloading from a guy in another continent at a pretty decent speed yesterday. Other countries mainly use fiber optics though, which is incredibly fast.
Seriously though, that is poor performance for what you’re probably paying. Your server is not connected wirelessly right? No, you said you get good speed in state. Call Verizon up and demand they do something.