I have a setup where a 8 core droplet (hosted on DO, managed by cloudways) is pulling data from DO’s object storage (object storage is in singapore). The data being pulled is images, most of which are 1mb in size. The download speed that I’m getting is barely 3 MBps. When I ran the DO speedtest, the download speed test showed 7 MBps.
I was under the impression that even the lowest tier of storage and droplets will get speeds of around 100 MBps. Am i missing something? What can be a solution?
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There might be several reasons for the slow speed, such as network latency, resource throttling, or configurations on your droplet.
You can monitor the server’s resources usage as it might run low on CPU, memory. Adding a swap space will be the starting point (if this is not already done of course)
To optimize the download speed, you can consider the following steps:
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Check your network settings: Ensure there are no network bottlenecks or limitations affecting the speed.
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Use Content Delivery Network (CDN): Using Spaces CDN can help deliver the images faster to your droplet by caching the assets and reducing latency.
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Optimize your configuration: Evaluate and optimize the server and application settings to ensure they are not limiting your download speed.
Hope that this helps!
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