Hi guys,
I'm currently running mobile pop campaigns and I'm slowly transitioning from direct-linking to using landing pages.
Following Charles Ngo's ultimate guide to affiliate marketing, I purchased a VPS over at Liquidweb, the server is located in the US. Everything is set up, including CloudFlare (I'm on the free plan).
As I'm mostly running campaigns in South East Asia and Latin America, I decided to do a couple of speed tests before sending any traffic to my landing pages. I was unpleasantly surprised to see that loading times from Brazil, Asia, and Australia are almost 3 seconds compared to 400ms in the US, for the exact same page.
I researched the STM forum for quite a while to see if anyone has had this problem as well, and I see a lot of people use Amazon S3 + CloudFront instead of a VPS + CloudFlare.
How does Amazon S3 + CloudFront loading time compare to a VPS + CloudFlare? Is Amazon a better solution if you're running campaigns in multiple GEOs?
I know loading times are less when testing closer to the VPS server location, but I can't really afford to purchase VPS' all over the globe.
Is it a smart move to cancel my VPS and switch over to Amazon S3 + CloudFront to increase the loading speed of my landing pages, considering I'm getting most of my traffic from South East Asia and Latin America?
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Thanks!
Adster
Hi adster,
Thank you for asking this question. I am exactly the same boat as you.
Charles Ngo -> Liquidweb VPS -> Mobile Pop in Latam, Africa and Asia regions.
I do not have a cloudfare account yet. Only VPS. But get page load times around 1s.
I use google page speed insight here - https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ to help optimize the landing page
Also use gtmetrix
I had the same question. Before I jump the boat and move to AWS.
Thanks!
gaurangv
Woops, somehow we all missed this.
The answer is easy - for quick and cheap testing without any PHP, Amazon S3 + CloudFront is great. I would definitely switch to that given your main geos, and once you get something going, you can certainly reconsider your options. This is quick (both to setup and in terms of load speeds) and let's you find the profit before going into that harder-to-do optimization in terms of hosting.
Thanks manu_adefy,
I saw adster's post on 8/18 where he has already moved to Amazon S3 + Cloudfront. I think that is the route I will take. For now.
Hi guys!
Guarangv is correct, I already switched to S3 and CloudFront. I did do extensive testing with both set-ups, and found that Amazon was actually sometimes even faster on 3G connections, all the results are here in my follow-along:
https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...iate-Marketing
Best,
Adster