Upload speed to droplet is less than 100KB/s

Hey @spoolioweb,

I’ve not found any reported network problems that could be causing this. As said, it might be good to contact DigitalOcean support for them to check however it does seem like the connection between your network and the droplet is not stable. This could be due to a lot of reasons not entirely connected to your Droplet. It’s possible the upload speed outside of your country to be low.

Hello @spoolioweb

The issue you’re experiencing with slow uploads may be due to several factors. It could be the network between your location and the data center, it could be an issue with scp itself, or it could be an issue with your droplet.

Here are a few steps to help diagnose and possibly solve your issue:

1. First, make sure your droplet is not experiencing any CPU or Disk IO bottlenecks while uploading. You can monitor the droplet’s resource usage and check if the droplet is under load which can explain the slow upload speed.

2. Second, try using a different protocol for file transfer such as sftp or rsync. In general, I’ll prefer rsync instead of scp since the protocol is more optimized and should complete the data transfer a lot faster.

If neither of these options helps, please contact DigitalOcean’s support team directly and provide them with all the detail you’ve gathered. A support ticket will allow us to gather further information and potentially identify an issue.

Hope that this helps!