Comparison of 2 Web Hosts
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beginTime: Tue Apr 05 2022 10:46:33 GMT+0300 (Arabian Standard Time)
endTime: Tue Apr 05 2022 10:49:24 GMT+0300 (Arabian Standard Time)
171.89 seconds elapsed during load.beginTime: Tue Apr 05 2022 10:46:32 GMT+0300 (Arabian Standard Time)
endTime: Tue Apr 05 2022 10:48:31 GMT+0300 (Arabian Standard Time)
119.208 seconds elapsed during load.:omg: Are you still using dial-up?
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This may be interesting if you are comparing / deciding upon which web host to use. I've had a miserable time finding one that is consistent. Long ago I used GoDaddy & invariably it would get into a state where it was inaccessible or so slow that it would be useless & people thought my site was down. I moved to SmarterAsp.net & they are extremely fast. However, their entire site has been DDOS'd two times in the past year or so. With an outage recently that left my site unavailable for over 24 hours. They also have a snippet at the bottom of their sales page[^] that states:
Quote:
99.9% Uptime Guarantee We'll credit you a MONTH's service for every hour of interrupted service.
I contacted them about it and they said, "Nope. We don't do that for DDOS attacks. It's in our SLA, read it." So I decided to move to WinHost However, their site is SUPER S-L-O-W -- and their control panel doesn't report as much good stuff. Super Slow? I created this little test & I would appreciate it if any of you would try it out on both sites then report values here. Here's the test that I run to compare SmarterASP.net to WinHost. 1) Load page which includes 5MB image. 2) measure time while page loads (get time before & after page load, compare milliseconds) Comparison Snapshots Check out the difference in load times: Loaded via SmarterASP.NET web site[^]. Loaded via WinHost web site[^]. Load Times SmarterASP.NET loaded it in 1.565 seconds WinHost loaded it in 13.615 seconds. 🤯🤯🤯 Possible Difference SmarterASP one is not doing HTTPS I moved the test under one of my sites hosted by SmarterASP which is also on HTTPS and ran it again: SmarterASP.net site with HTTPS[^] (image of results). Still extremely fast 0.952 seconds. Might You Try it For Me? Would you mind trying it and letting me know what you get for
WinHost: 12.8 SmarterASP.net: 1.6 So, night and day. If you're still looking for a decent Windows-based hosting service, try an outfit called Liquid Six. They are just great.
Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk
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This may be interesting if you are comparing / deciding upon which web host to use. I've had a miserable time finding one that is consistent. Long ago I used GoDaddy & invariably it would get into a state where it was inaccessible or so slow that it would be useless & people thought my site was down. I moved to SmarterAsp.net & they are extremely fast. However, their entire site has been DDOS'd two times in the past year or so. With an outage recently that left my site unavailable for over 24 hours. They also have a snippet at the bottom of their sales page[^] that states:
Quote:
99.9% Uptime Guarantee We'll credit you a MONTH's service for every hour of interrupted service.
I contacted them about it and they said, "Nope. We don't do that for DDOS attacks. It's in our SLA, read it." So I decided to move to WinHost However, their site is SUPER S-L-O-W -- and their control panel doesn't report as much good stuff. Super Slow? I created this little test & I would appreciate it if any of you would try it out on both sites then report values here. Here's the test that I run to compare SmarterASP.net to WinHost. 1) Load page which includes 5MB image. 2) measure time while page loads (get time before & after page load, compare milliseconds) Comparison Snapshots Check out the difference in load times: Loaded via SmarterASP.NET web site[^]. Loaded via WinHost web site[^]. Load Times SmarterASP.NET loaded it in 1.565 seconds WinHost loaded it in 13.615 seconds. 🤯🤯🤯 Possible Difference SmarterASP one is not doing HTTPS I moved the test under one of my sites hosted by SmarterASP which is also on HTTPS and ran it again: SmarterASP.net site with HTTPS[^] (image of results). Still extremely fast 0.952 seconds. Might You Try it For Me? Would you mind trying it and letting me know what you get for
Winhost 47.179s vs SmarterASP 2.965s (Sweden)
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This may be interesting if you are comparing / deciding upon which web host to use. I've had a miserable time finding one that is consistent. Long ago I used GoDaddy & invariably it would get into a state where it was inaccessible or so slow that it would be useless & people thought my site was down. I moved to SmarterAsp.net & they are extremely fast. However, their entire site has been DDOS'd two times in the past year or so. With an outage recently that left my site unavailable for over 24 hours. They also have a snippet at the bottom of their sales page[^] that states:
Quote:
99.9% Uptime Guarantee We'll credit you a MONTH's service for every hour of interrupted service.
I contacted them about it and they said, "Nope. We don't do that for DDOS attacks. It's in our SLA, read it." So I decided to move to WinHost However, their site is SUPER S-L-O-W -- and their control panel doesn't report as much good stuff. Super Slow? I created this little test & I would appreciate it if any of you would try it out on both sites then report values here. Here's the test that I run to compare SmarterASP.net to WinHost. 1) Load page which includes 5MB image. 2) measure time while page loads (get time before & after page load, compare milliseconds) Comparison Snapshots Check out the difference in load times: Loaded via SmarterASP.NET web site[^]. Loaded via WinHost web site[^]. Load Times SmarterASP.NET loaded it in 1.565 seconds WinHost loaded it in 13.615 seconds. 🤯🤯🤯 Possible Difference SmarterASP one is not doing HTTPS I moved the test under one of my sites hosted by SmarterASP which is also on HTTPS and ran it again: SmarterASP.net site with HTTPS[^] (image of results). Still extremely fast 0.952 seconds. Might You Try it For Me? Would you mind trying it and letting me know what you get for
(1) 44.74 s (!) (2) 5.30 s Accessed from a superfast, optical connection.
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To me (Italy) WinHost sits at 11.299 and SmarterASP.net at 10.812
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WinHost: 12.8 SmarterASP.net: 1.6 So, night and day. If you're still looking for a decent Windows-based hosting service, try an outfit called Liquid Six. They are just great.
Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk
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beginTime: Tue Apr 05 2022 10:46:33 GMT+0300 (Arabian Standard Time)
endTime: Tue Apr 05 2022 10:49:24 GMT+0300 (Arabian Standard Time)
171.89 seconds elapsed during load.beginTime: Tue Apr 05 2022 10:46:32 GMT+0300 (Arabian Standard Time)
endTime: Tue Apr 05 2022 10:48:31 GMT+0300 (Arabian Standard Time)
119.208 seconds elapsed during load.Thanks very much for trying this & reporting the results. Wow! I was curious if times would be longer from other locations around the world (other than North America). Someone reported that Italy was longer time too, but over 100 seconds is hardly even usable.
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Winhost 47.179s vs SmarterASP 2.965s (Sweden)
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(1) 44.74 s (!) (2) 5.30 s Accessed from a superfast, optical connection.
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Cincinnati OH - WinHost 6.571 secs, SmarterASP 0.883 secs Through our corporate VPN (somewhere in Texas) WinHost 4.603 secs, SmarterASP 3.468 secs (but our VPN is slow at everything)
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Thanks for trying it out & reporting. You saw similar differences that I & many others saw. I will look into Liquid Six. Thanks for the tip.
Do, you won't regret it, they are ace. (I'm not affiliated with them in any way, just a happy customer and a big, big fan.)
Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk
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This may be interesting if you are comparing / deciding upon which web host to use. I've had a miserable time finding one that is consistent. Long ago I used GoDaddy & invariably it would get into a state where it was inaccessible or so slow that it would be useless & people thought my site was down. I moved to SmarterAsp.net & they are extremely fast. However, their entire site has been DDOS'd two times in the past year or so. With an outage recently that left my site unavailable for over 24 hours. They also have a snippet at the bottom of their sales page[^] that states:
Quote:
99.9% Uptime Guarantee We'll credit you a MONTH's service for every hour of interrupted service.
I contacted them about it and they said, "Nope. We don't do that for DDOS attacks. It's in our SLA, read it." So I decided to move to WinHost However, their site is SUPER S-L-O-W -- and their control panel doesn't report as much good stuff. Super Slow? I created this little test & I would appreciate it if any of you would try it out on both sites then report values here. Here's the test that I run to compare SmarterASP.net to WinHost. 1) Load page which includes 5MB image. 2) measure time while page loads (get time before & after page load, compare milliseconds) Comparison Snapshots Check out the difference in load times: Loaded via SmarterASP.NET web site[^]. Loaded via WinHost web site[^]. Load Times SmarterASP.NET loaded it in 1.565 seconds WinHost loaded it in 13.615 seconds. 🤯🤯🤯 Possible Difference SmarterASP one is not doing HTTPS I moved the test under one of my sites hosted by SmarterASP which is also on HTTPS and ran it again: SmarterASP.net site with HTTPS[^] (image of results). Still extremely fast 0.952 seconds. Might You Try it For Me? Would you mind trying it and letting me know what you get for
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This may be interesting if you are comparing / deciding upon which web host to use. I've had a miserable time finding one that is consistent. Long ago I used GoDaddy & invariably it would get into a state where it was inaccessible or so slow that it would be useless & people thought my site was down. I moved to SmarterAsp.net & they are extremely fast. However, their entire site has been DDOS'd two times in the past year or so. With an outage recently that left my site unavailable for over 24 hours. They also have a snippet at the bottom of their sales page[^] that states:
Quote:
99.9% Uptime Guarantee We'll credit you a MONTH's service for every hour of interrupted service.
I contacted them about it and they said, "Nope. We don't do that for DDOS attacks. It's in our SLA, read it." So I decided to move to WinHost However, their site is SUPER S-L-O-W -- and their control panel doesn't report as much good stuff. Super Slow? I created this little test & I would appreciate it if any of you would try it out on both sites then report values here. Here's the test that I run to compare SmarterASP.net to WinHost. 1) Load page which includes 5MB image. 2) measure time while page loads (get time before & after page load, compare milliseconds) Comparison Snapshots Check out the difference in load times: Loaded via SmarterASP.NET web site[^]. Loaded via WinHost web site[^]. Load Times SmarterASP.NET loaded it in 1.565 seconds WinHost loaded it in 13.615 seconds. 🤯🤯🤯 Possible Difference SmarterASP one is not doing HTTPS I moved the test under one of my sites hosted by SmarterASP which is also on HTTPS and ran it again: SmarterASP.net site with HTTPS[^] (image of results). Still extremely fast 0.952 seconds. Might You Try it For Me? Would you mind trying it and letting me know what you get for
1.1s (winhost) vs 14.7s (sMaRtErAsP.nEt). From: PA, USA.
raddevus wrote:
SmarterASP one is not doing HTTPS
This shouldn't matter unless they're using decade+ old servers; anything newer has hardware acceleration in the CPU and should see something like a 1% performance impact from HTTPS.
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This may be interesting if you are comparing / deciding upon which web host to use. I've had a miserable time finding one that is consistent. Long ago I used GoDaddy & invariably it would get into a state where it was inaccessible or so slow that it would be useless & people thought my site was down. I moved to SmarterAsp.net & they are extremely fast. However, their entire site has been DDOS'd two times in the past year or so. With an outage recently that left my site unavailable for over 24 hours. They also have a snippet at the bottom of their sales page[^] that states:
Quote:
99.9% Uptime Guarantee We'll credit you a MONTH's service for every hour of interrupted service.
I contacted them about it and they said, "Nope. We don't do that for DDOS attacks. It's in our SLA, read it." So I decided to move to WinHost However, their site is SUPER S-L-O-W -- and their control panel doesn't report as much good stuff. Super Slow? I created this little test & I would appreciate it if any of you would try it out on both sites then report values here. Here's the test that I run to compare SmarterASP.net to WinHost. 1) Load page which includes 5MB image. 2) measure time while page loads (get time before & after page load, compare milliseconds) Comparison Snapshots Check out the difference in load times: Loaded via SmarterASP.NET web site[^]. Loaded via WinHost web site[^]. Load Times SmarterASP.NET loaded it in 1.565 seconds WinHost loaded it in 13.615 seconds. 🤯🤯🤯 Possible Difference SmarterASP one is not doing HTTPS I moved the test under one of my sites hosted by SmarterASP which is also on HTTPS and ran it again: SmarterASP.net site with HTTPS[^] (image of results). Still extremely fast 0.952 seconds. Might You Try it For Me? Would you mind trying it and letting me know what you get for
Run from Rockford, Illinois Winhost: 13.496 SmarterASP: 6.489
Sincerely, -Mark mamiller@mhemail.org
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This may be interesting if you are comparing / deciding upon which web host to use. I've had a miserable time finding one that is consistent. Long ago I used GoDaddy & invariably it would get into a state where it was inaccessible or so slow that it would be useless & people thought my site was down. I moved to SmarterAsp.net & they are extremely fast. However, their entire site has been DDOS'd two times in the past year or so. With an outage recently that left my site unavailable for over 24 hours. They also have a snippet at the bottom of their sales page[^] that states:
Quote:
99.9% Uptime Guarantee We'll credit you a MONTH's service for every hour of interrupted service.
I contacted them about it and they said, "Nope. We don't do that for DDOS attacks. It's in our SLA, read it." So I decided to move to WinHost However, their site is SUPER S-L-O-W -- and their control panel doesn't report as much good stuff. Super Slow? I created this little test & I would appreciate it if any of you would try it out on both sites then report values here. Here's the test that I run to compare SmarterASP.net to WinHost. 1) Load page which includes 5MB image. 2) measure time while page loads (get time before & after page load, compare milliseconds) Comparison Snapshots Check out the difference in load times: Loaded via SmarterASP.NET web site[^]. Loaded via WinHost web site[^]. Load Times SmarterASP.NET loaded it in 1.565 seconds WinHost loaded it in 13.615 seconds. 🤯🤯🤯 Possible Difference SmarterASP one is not doing HTTPS I moved the test under one of my sites hosted by SmarterASP which is also on HTTPS and ran it again: SmarterASP.net site with HTTPS[^] (image of results). Still extremely fast 0.952 seconds. Might You Try it For Me? Would you mind trying it and letting me know what you get for
The SmarterASP loads much much faster. I am located on Borneo Island.
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Winhost approx 8 seconds. Smarter Asp approx 2 seconds. I suggest checking out Interserver.
Thanks so much for running the test. WinHost is consistently (from around the world) 2 - 10X slower.
Gary S 2021 wrote:
I suggest checking out Interserver.
:thumbsup: That's so funny, because I just (before reading your messsage) signed up for 1 month & I uploaded speedTest files & tesed & it was less than 1 second to load.
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Run from Rockford, Illinois Winhost: 13.496 SmarterASP: 6.489
Sincerely, -Mark mamiller@mhemail.org
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The SmarterASP loads much much faster. I am located on Borneo Island.
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This may be interesting if you are comparing / deciding upon which web host to use. I've had a miserable time finding one that is consistent. Long ago I used GoDaddy & invariably it would get into a state where it was inaccessible or so slow that it would be useless & people thought my site was down. I moved to SmarterAsp.net & they are extremely fast. However, their entire site has been DDOS'd two times in the past year or so. With an outage recently that left my site unavailable for over 24 hours. They also have a snippet at the bottom of their sales page[^] that states:
Quote:
99.9% Uptime Guarantee We'll credit you a MONTH's service for every hour of interrupted service.
I contacted them about it and they said, "Nope. We don't do that for DDOS attacks. It's in our SLA, read it." So I decided to move to WinHost However, their site is SUPER S-L-O-W -- and their control panel doesn't report as much good stuff. Super Slow? I created this little test & I would appreciate it if any of you would try it out on both sites then report values here. Here's the test that I run to compare SmarterASP.net to WinHost. 1) Load page which includes 5MB image. 2) measure time while page loads (get time before & after page load, compare milliseconds) Comparison Snapshots Check out the difference in load times: Loaded via SmarterASP.NET web site[^]. Loaded via WinHost web site[^]. Load Times SmarterASP.NET loaded it in 1.565 seconds WinHost loaded it in 13.615 seconds. 🤯🤯🤯 Possible Difference SmarterASP one is not doing HTTPS I moved the test under one of my sites hosted by SmarterASP which is also on HTTPS and ran it again: SmarterASP.net site with HTTPS[^] (image of results). Still extremely fast 0.952 seconds. Might You Try it For Me? Would you mind trying it and letting me know what you get for
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This may be interesting if you are comparing / deciding upon which web host to use. I've had a miserable time finding one that is consistent. Long ago I used GoDaddy & invariably it would get into a state where it was inaccessible or so slow that it would be useless & people thought my site was down. I moved to SmarterAsp.net & they are extremely fast. However, their entire site has been DDOS'd two times in the past year or so. With an outage recently that left my site unavailable for over 24 hours. They also have a snippet at the bottom of their sales page[^] that states:
Quote:
99.9% Uptime Guarantee We'll credit you a MONTH's service for every hour of interrupted service.
I contacted them about it and they said, "Nope. We don't do that for DDOS attacks. It's in our SLA, read it." So I decided to move to WinHost However, their site is SUPER S-L-O-W -- and their control panel doesn't report as much good stuff. Super Slow? I created this little test & I would appreciate it if any of you would try it out on both sites then report values here. Here's the test that I run to compare SmarterASP.net to WinHost. 1) Load page which includes 5MB image. 2) measure time while page loads (get time before & after page load, compare milliseconds) Comparison Snapshots Check out the difference in load times: Loaded via SmarterASP.NET web site[^]. Loaded via WinHost web site[^]. Load Times SmarterASP.NET loaded it in 1.565 seconds WinHost loaded it in 13.615 seconds. 🤯🤯🤯 Possible Difference SmarterASP one is not doing HTTPS I moved the test under one of my sites hosted by SmarterASP which is also on HTTPS and ran it again: SmarterASP.net site with HTTPS[^] (image of results). Still extremely fast 0.952 seconds. Might You Try it For Me? Would you mind trying it and letting me know what you get for
1. There are a few page-speed-test tools out there, that will hit your page from dozens of locations on planet earth.. measuring ttfb and full load time, etc. https://www.dotcom-tools.com/website-speed-test[^] 2. Things like HTTPS and HTTP/2 matter, hugely. 3. If you care about speed, reliability and security (incl. ddos-protection) you should really serve everything from a CDN edge-cache like Cloudflare or AWS CloudFront. Even if your content isn't cacheable.. just using a CF endpoint as a "proxy" will have huge benefits for short-circuiting roundtrips from browser-to-server. (Just establishing a single HTTPS connection requires several sequential TCP roundtrips.)
