Best Server Setup 2019? (9)
What do people feel is the best CDN / Hosting combo in 2019?
I am currently running on Amazon (S3,Cloudfront,Route53) but I find it quite slow.
Any suggestions for better setups?
Curious if you're using Alias records between Route53 > Cloudfront/S3? It can eliminate a pretty severe CNAME delay.
Not sure what those are?
I am using the 4 Amazon nameservers.
Answered that a bit your last post:
https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...rlwide-traffic
What's the goal and your requirements? Are you doing pops? Redirects? CPC based Ad traffic? Cloaking? Need more info to recommend a solution.
There's definitely a point of diminishing returns under a certain load speed that you should already be approaching by using a CDN solution for most things.
This is for a different purpose then my last thread.
I will be hosting simple html landing pages to be used with native, push and pops.
First of all - do you know which service is causing the delay?
The redirection chain usually goes like this:
Tracker domain DNS -> Tracker redirection to lander -> Lander domain DNS -> CDN
S3 can't be the culprit - because the pages are being served from Cloudfront.
I would start by checking DNS speed of your tracker domain and lander domain:
https://www.ultratools.com/tools/dnsHostingSpeed
Tracker redirection speed would be tricky to test - perhaps people that are more knowledgeable than I am at this tech stuff (which many people are) may have a better solution, but I would suggest to subscribe to a managed cloud tracker (not self-hosted) for a month just to run some benchmark stats to make sure your current tracker settings are good. It may sound like a ton of hassle, but slow redirection speed can limit the performance of all future campaigns you run on that tracker.
Then of course you can switch to a faster DNS service and/or a faster CDN service, but I doubt either would help decrease speed by a significant amount - assuming the stats on these sites are correct:
https://www.dnsperf.com
https://www.cdnperf.com/
According to these sites, the fastest services will only gain you another <100ms in total over the ones you're currently using. It may or may not be worth it to switch - I have no idea whether the minute increase would result in an increase in conversion rates because I've never done a comparison.
Overall speaking though, optimizing lander code and images is the most crucial, but with your level of experience, you must be a pro at that by now. Still, it may be worth it to get a dev to optimize your best landers further.
Hope that helps! I hope you'll get more tips from the more tech-advanced members!
Amy
Pretty solid set up for me has always been:
- MaxCDN for CDN hosted assets (images, scripts mostly)
- Vultr for VPS server (depends on volume, but I usually pick the $40 a month server)
- Cloudflare for DNS hosting
- ServerPilot to configure server and get free SSL (I don't use CloudFlare's anymore, found it to be unreliable).
Pro-Tip: Enabling PageSpeed on server (make sure it doesn't break your pages).
Pro-Tip 2: Use Kraken.io to compress image assets
Pro-Tip 3: Place CSS on page to avoid less HTTP requests
Pro-Tip 4: Use gt-metrix to measure response times and optimize according to recommendations
Pro-Tip 5: For popular libraries like jQuery, use google's CDN copy
Originally Posted by andy_d
Originally Posted by manu_adefy
The problem with that site is that you can only do 1 file at a time it seems, not as user friendly as kraken.
Although you could always code something up: https://compress-or-die.com/developers/
Will look into this
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