New Server + New Host = Sick Speed
By Daniel Miessler on October 8th, 2006: Tagged as Blogging | Geek | Hardware
Yes, that’s 8.55 Megabytes per second (not Megabits). So that’s roughly a minute and 16 seconds to download an full CD. In addition to the brutal speed increase, my new configuration also responds much faster and more consistently.
What we see on the left is my old host with caching enabled. In the middle we see the old host with caching disabled, and on the right we see my new setup without caching. I’m averaging around a 225ms load time of the entire main page, as opposed to well over a thousand before.