BruceM
03-16-1999, 07:44 AM
I going down a well warn path - I'm looking for a new provider.
My current problems are with cgi execution speed and a perception that there are too many of us for the hardware to cope. In the early days my cgi derived pages were coming up in 3 or 4 seconds and now we are talking of 15,20,30 secs etc.
Its nice to see all the support and forums etc but what I'm more interested in is how FQ and FQ servers perform in a cgi, PHP, and database context. This is all extra stuff above and beyond supplying HTML at high speed. I wonder what would happen in a years time when all the sites have grown a few Mb, are serving twice as many users and each webmaster has tucked some cgi on her site and is starting to experiment with php pages hitting a 10Mb database? I was with a great provider 2 years ago - excellent performance, because the machine was lightly loaded (I just didn't know thsi at the time). 2 Years down the tracks and it's pretty grim. Do FQ have any hard performance metrics or is it goodwill (or which there seems to be plenty) that folks rely on to deliver pages acceptably fast?
A final question to those who are hosting with FQ from overseas. Have comms difficulties ever been an issue - performance or otherwise. I'm concerned about connect times (Ping) up above 300msec and there being lots more routers/hops in the line between the bulk of my UK users and the servers.
Sorry if I have not yet been convinced by all the good words about how good FQ are! Compared to many providrs FQ ideed look very good.
Thanks for your help
Bruce
My current problems are with cgi execution speed and a perception that there are too many of us for the hardware to cope. In the early days my cgi derived pages were coming up in 3 or 4 seconds and now we are talking of 15,20,30 secs etc.
Its nice to see all the support and forums etc but what I'm more interested in is how FQ and FQ servers perform in a cgi, PHP, and database context. This is all extra stuff above and beyond supplying HTML at high speed. I wonder what would happen in a years time when all the sites have grown a few Mb, are serving twice as many users and each webmaster has tucked some cgi on her site and is starting to experiment with php pages hitting a 10Mb database? I was with a great provider 2 years ago - excellent performance, because the machine was lightly loaded (I just didn't know thsi at the time). 2 Years down the tracks and it's pretty grim. Do FQ have any hard performance metrics or is it goodwill (or which there seems to be plenty) that folks rely on to deliver pages acceptably fast?
A final question to those who are hosting with FQ from overseas. Have comms difficulties ever been an issue - performance or otherwise. I'm concerned about connect times (Ping) up above 300msec and there being lots more routers/hops in the line between the bulk of my UK users and the servers.
Sorry if I have not yet been convinced by all the good words about how good FQ are! Compared to many providrs FQ ideed look very good.
Thanks for your help
Bruce