how do i set up a fast server? (10)
Hi Super Affiliates,
How and where is the Super Affiliates setting up their server? Can anyone teach me?
is it possible for Load time to be less than 1 sec?
Thanks
The fastest lander I've run recently was, if I recall, loading in around 46ms on its chosen geo, so yes, it's definitely possible for them to load in less than a second 
Unless you definitely need a server-side language like PHP on your landers, I'd highly encourage you to host them on a CDN, which avoids all the hassles of setting up servers. Here's our guide to doing that: http://stmforum.com/forum/showthread...-Cost-Way-Ever!
If you DO need a server for your landers specifically, let me know and I can recommend further.
Obviously you also need to track your landers. For that, you will either need a server or a hosted solution:
If you're wanting to run a tracker on your own server (which does come with some benefits), the best approach is to ask the tracker creator what spec server you'll need, and then hire someone to set it up (if you're doing enough volume to justify that). It's important to make it reasonably close to your chosen geo, too - where are you running traffic?
Finally: load time is not usually slowed primarily by the server, unless the server is overloaded. It's usually a problem of the lander's design: heavy images, excessive Javascript or CSS, or other load-time-slowing things.
I wrote an article a while back about speeding up your landers by optimising how they're coded: here it is - http://stmforum.com/forum/showthread...ter-Cheatsheet
Hope that all helps! Let me know if you need further advice or clarification.
Thanks! Caurmen. Yea i need a server. can you recommend me?
OK, coming up! First, some questions:
What does the server need to do? Does it just need to serve landing pages, or does it need to run a tracker too, or something else? If it needs to run a tracker, which one?
Do you have any other requirements, like running Wordpress or something similar?
In short, why do you need a server rather than just a CDN?
The answers to that will help me suggest the best option for you.
Thank you so much Caurmen.
need a server because my lps are php (some pages i have the user can submit information and send to my email). not running tracker. also trying some wordpress site.
OK, gotcha. What sort of volume are you expecting to run? Thousands of visitors, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions a day?
As a rule, I'd recommend using dedicated Wordpress hosting for any serious Wordpress project. Wordpress is a pain in the ass to optimise and it's very slow without that optimisation, plus it presents an ongoing sysadmin headache as you have to keep it and all plugins super-up-to-date or risk security problems.
Thanks Caurmen. I'm expecting millions a day. but if the wordpress don't work out, we might just set up normal website setting.
OK, at that volume you'll probably do better with a non-Wordpress option. It's not that a well-set-up Wordpress can't handle that volume, but it's a pain to get it to there, and other more modern solutions will do it much faster.
I wrote an article which is directly relevant here: http://stmforum.com/forum/showthread...g-Your-Landers
Unless you need a lot of audience interaction (comments, forums, etc) I'd recommend using either Ghost or a static site generator for a very high volume site. A static site generator is probably best: Jekyll's the best known one, but there are lots of options out there.
Here's a recent review of the latest ones: https://www.netlify.com/blog/2016/05...te-generators/
If you're using a static site generator and Nginx, you don't need a very powerful server at all to serve millions of pages. A VPS with 8Gb of RAM (less will work, but let's be on the safe side) and equivalent other specs (SSD being critical) will perfectly happily serve over 10,000,000 pages a day with very minimal additional setup.
As a bonus, those pages will load far faster than even a well-configured Wordpress site.
If you really want to tune further, the suggestions in https://blog.martinfjordvald.com/201...traffic-loads/ are pretty good. You could also move from a virtual server to a dedicated server, which will be even faster thanks to removing the virtualisation layer. Even a small dedicated server will serve absolutely absurd levels of traffic if serving static files via nginx - you'll max out your network connection and possibly your entire hosting center's peering before you really start seeing problems at the hardware level.
If you're running this sort of setup, you can also go right back to the CDN idea, at which point your ability to serve pages is effectively unlimited and your load speeds will be very, very fast.
Does that answer the question for you, or have I missed something that's important to your business case?
Thanks Caurmen. this is really eye opening. never heard of static site generator etc gotta look into it. but where can i get server? i also heard a lot of super affiliates are setting using Amazon. however, how do i set up? is there a manual on that?
I'm thinking of going with beyondhosting vps. Do i need to get their cdn too? Countries > LATAM & ASIA
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