Question
Digital ocean vs Hostgator speed test. Am I missing something?
Hi,
I have just migrated over one of my WP sites and have done a speed test.
Digital Ocean seems to be a lot slow than Hostgator. Any reason for this? Am I missing something?
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Results
Hostgator - baby plan
(shared with 351 other sites)
Utah
http://ryankempe.com/
load time seconds:
Amsterdam, Netherlands 4.62
Dallas, Texas, USA 2.28
Melbourne, Australia 5.05
New York City, New York, USA 2.45
San Jose, California, USA 1.56
Stockholm, Sweden 5.75
Average 3.618333333
Digital ocean droplet
size: $10 plan - 1gb ram, etc
Singapore
http://128.199.68.82/
load time seconds
Amsterdam, Netherlands 5.5
Dallas, Texas, USA 4.67
Melbourne, Australia 3.86
New York City, New York, USA 4.13
San Jose, California, USA 4.31
Stockholm, Sweden 5.12
Average 4.598333333
Tool used
Yes I used pingdom tools.
http://tools.pingdom.com/
App
Wordpress
HTTP Server
no idea whether nginx or apache.
serverpilot.io used to install the server
Server optimisation
I have not done any. But aren’t I comparing apples to apples here?
I am assuming that hostgator and digital ocean are setup the same.
If I go an optimise DO, I may as well optimise HG and get even better load times.
Conclusions I have made:
I think Singapore is all round a bad choice for a droplet. I chose it as I have a few other domains that are Australian but I think bulk majority of traffic will come from the US, so I will just delete my droplet and remigrate to NY I think. I will then retest.
Update:
after creating a droplet in singapore anf getting poor load times I switched to California. here are the results:
digital ocean droplet
size: $10 plan - 1gb ram, etc
California
load time seconds
Amsterdam, Netherlands 3.48
Dallas, Texas, USA 1.54
Melbourne, Australia 5.43
New York City, New York, USA 1.5
San Jose, California, USA 0.682
Stockholm, Sweden 3.39
Average 2.670333333