DigitalOcean VS Hostgator Baby Plan Speed Test

Hello team,

First of all I wanted to thank you for the great support community and service.

I am currently keeping my Joomla sites on Hostgator Baby Plan and my new community site has started to grow very fast so i noticed several limit hits in my CPU reports (Hostgator’s CP tool).

I have successfully installed the copy of my production site: http://ilovejapanese.org to http://128.199.107.223 in order to test how it works and performs. I have also installed the Server Pilot.

Site itself works fine, however after several hours of speed tests I cannot ignore that Hostgator’s site performs significantly better. I would like to understand what can be the cause of this issue as I definitely want to migrate from them in the near future.

Important note: I see that mostly the performance issues are related to the long server response time. After the data starts transferring, both Hostgator and DigitalOcean performs pretty much the same (I have a feeling that DigitalOcean is somewhat faster).

Test Environment:

Server location: Singapore My location: Japan, Tokyo Test time: 18:00 Tokyo Local Time, 27 Dec 2014 Browser: Google Chrome (browser cache cleaned up) Internet: Pocket Wifi PC: Lenovo X1 Carbon

Pages load (in order):

Manual Test

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http://ilovejapanese.org

/home: 7 sec -> /board: 4’38 sec -> /community: 5’31 -> sec -> /board: 2’21 sec -> board random thread: 3’65 sec -> /About: 4’61 sec -> /who-we-are: 4 sec -> Home: 4’40 sec -> Board: 3’45 sec

http://128.199.107.223

/home: 9’38 sec -> /board: 6’78 sec -> /community: 3’91 -> sec -> /board: 5 sec -> board random thread: 5’98 sec -> /About: 5’53 sec -> /who-we-are: 3’33 sec -> /Home: 8’78 sec -> /Board: 6’13 sec

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Website speed test using http://tools.pingdom.com

Result 1:

This specific test was done on December 27 at 18:33:42 from Dallas, Texas, USA. The web page took 4.79 s to load, used 165 requests, and weighed in at 2.3 MB.

The Google Page Speed performance grade for this web page is 71/100

There’s a ton of more information you can check out here: http://fpt.pingdom.com#!/eDr8fU/http://ilovejapanese.org

Result 2:

This specific test was done on December 27 at 18:35:47 from Dallas, Texas, USA. The web page took 10.93 s to load, used 165 requests, and weighed in at 2.4 MB.

The Google Page Speed performance grade for this web page is 70/100

There’s a ton of more information you can check out here: http://fpt.pingdom.com#!/dWaOJw/http://128.199.107.223

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Thank you and sorry for the long message.

Kind Regards, Alex