Speed up loading web sites
Tuesday, 10. November 2009, 14:18:47
I was getting a hunch how to speed up web sites loading when i was using Windows XP under Virtualbox on Ubuntu and after installing all sorts of drivers and defragmenting that virtual drive and it was that turbo download speed will not help but lower hard drive latency will. The funny thing is that i was getting 6ms access time on 5400rpm Hitachi drive that is probably at lest at 15ms and web sites loading was doubled under virtualization. The problem is how to address this with SSD drive or Raid 0 configuration with HDD. How to test how much your bandwidth has been used for a web site, you can do this with Opera browser and setting status bar as Show inside address bar. I was getting below 150KB/s on my 300KB/s download line so that is less than 50% on local test. Yes SSD may fix this trick but for current prices and capacity and fragmentation problems that have is not such a good idea. Before investing in more core CPU consider getting a better drives with RAID 0 config with two identical hard drivers that will make things faster. Computer speed is like gold it's never affordable.
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