Daninchina Posted August 11, 2004 at 04:38 AM Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 at 04:38 AM Alright, here's a question for all you webmasters out there who may be using US-based webhosting services - Have you noticed any slowdowns recently (in the past month or two) in connecting to your servers or websites, and if so, do you know any workarounds? I don't know if this problem is national or simply in Guangdong (I'm based in Shenzhen), but it's really frustrating as when I try to connect to my server via FTP, the connection is always so slow that I can barely transfer a small file before the connection is dropped. I never had any problems like this a few months ago. This seems to coincide with some slowdowns in accessing certain US-based websites that I've noticed recently...homestarrunner.com and amazon.com both are taking a lot longer to load up than ever before...(aside from those sites, I haven't been experiencing many problems otherwise). Using China Telecom ADSL, and their "customer support'" (if you can even call it that) is useless. While I'm relatively new to running a website in China (only have been doing so for around a year), perhaps someone out there has already had a similar problem and found a way to deal with it? Nice forums, btw... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daninchina Posted August 11, 2004 at 05:08 AM Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 at 05:08 AM Just did some more checking around the forum; and I'm not sure if this really applies or not. I mean, you can certainly view my website(s) in China (www.daninbusiness.com (personal), www.psschina.com (work site))...it's just that connecting to the server in the US is now ridiculously slow. Annoying. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geek_frappa Posted August 11, 2004 at 12:42 PM Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 at 12:42 PM ideas? host in the UK. PM roddy about hosting details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted August 11, 2004 at 02:03 PM Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 at 02:03 PM Your sites seem to load pretty quickly from here in Beijing. is the problem only with FTP access. If HTTP stuff is fine, but FTP isn't I'd guess it's a webhosting issue rather than a China issue. If you are running windows, go to start, run, and type ping www.yoursite.com - this will then let you see how long it takes a packet of date to get to and from your server. Chinese-forums.com is currently showing 600ms, which is pretty bad, while sina.com.cn (china-based) is showing 44ms (and the page loads quicker than it would off my hard-drive) I"m considering moving hosting to the US - that's where most of the visitors are (perhaps not most of the posters though). The idea of moving a 50MB database though Roddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ala Posted August 12, 2004 at 04:46 AM Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 at 04:46 AM chinese-forums.com is ~100ms in the US. yahoo.com is ~30ms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daninchina Posted August 12, 2004 at 06:04 AM Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 at 06:04 AM Thanks for the help and good suggestions, everyone! FTP was working slowly (but at least working) this morning; it's much slower now. Running the Ping test, it usually times out first, then after a few more attempts it shows a response time around 630 ms...(then it times out again). Annoying. In no rush to switch host servers, but this is getting really hard to work with! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geek_frappa Posted August 12, 2004 at 11:56 AM Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 at 11:56 AM have you tried godaddy.com? can u see this site in china? ping it and see how fast it is ... http://www.godaddy.com/ thanks... if you switch to godaddy, maybe i can sponsor you somehow... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted August 12, 2004 at 01:16 PM Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 at 01:16 PM 1100ms - I'll stay where I am, thanks. Roddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geek_frappa Posted August 12, 2004 at 03:33 PM Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 at 03:33 PM geez. no kidding. could make a sandwich in the time that the page loads.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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