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This may be interesting if you are comparing / deciding upon which web host to use.
I've had a miserable time finding one that is consistent.
Long ago I used GoDaddy & invariably it would get into a state where it was inaccessible or so slow that it would be useless & people thought my site was down.
I moved to SmarterAsp.net & they are extremely fast.
However, their entire site has been DDOS'd two times in the past year or so. With an outage recently that left my site unavailable for over 24 hours.
They also have a snippet at the bottom of their sales page[^] that states:
Quote: 99.9% Uptime Guarantee
We'll credit you a MONTH's service for every hour of interrupted service.
I contacted them about it and they said, "Nope. We don't do that for DDOS attacks. It's in our SLA, read it."
So I decided to move to WinHost
However, their site is SUPER S-L-O-W -- and their control panel doesn't report as much good stuff.
Super Slow?
I created this little test & I would appreciate it if any of you would try it out on both sites then report values here.
Here's the test that I run to compare SmarterASP.net to WinHost.
1) Load page which includes 5MB image.
2) measure time while page loads (get time before & after page load, compare milliseconds)
Comparison Snapshots
Check out the difference in load times:
Loaded via SmarterASP.NET web site[^].
Loaded via WinHost web site[^].
Load Times
SmarterASP.NET loaded it in 1.565 seconds
WinHost loaded it in 13.615 seconds. 🤯🤯🤯
Possible Difference
SmarterASP one is not doing HTTPS
I moved the test under one of my sites hosted by SmarterASP which is also on HTTPS and ran it again:
SmarterASP.net site with HTTPS[^] (image of results).
Still extremely fast 0.952 seconds.
Might You Try it For Me?
Would you mind trying it and letting me know what you get for each site?
1) WinHost Site: Test Load Speed[^]
2) SmarterASP.net site: Test Load Speed[^]
Have any of you noticed these kinds of differences?
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WinHost : 10.9
SmarterASP : 5.0
so not as dramatic difference as you noticed, but still significant.
Keep Calm and Carry On
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k5054 wrote: WinHost : 10.9
SmarterASP : 5.0
Thank you very much. And, at least this confirms that yes, the WinHost one is quite a bit slower (2x slower) than smarterasp.
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Thanks I will take a look.
But, unless it has to do with the host itself it may not show. I'm running same HTML but one is slower than other.
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That is a fantastic service. Wow! And it showed that yes the WinHost site is far slower & gets a far worse metric on the speedindex (15.196) where SmarterASP got (5.767).
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First try:
WinHost: 10.387 seconds elapsed during load.
SmarterASP: 4.331 seconds elapsed during load.
Second time load:
WinHost: 0.006 seconds elapsed during load.
SmarterASP: 0.008 seconds elapsed during load. Probably because the image has been cached locally.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Thanks so much for doing the test. It really helps me out.
I had a friend in Virginia try it and he got 23.xxx seconds for winhost & 1.2 seconds for SmarterASP.
It's crazy.
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Run from Yankton, SD
Winhost
beginTime: Mon Apr 04 2022 11:41:00 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)
endTime: Mon Apr 04 2022 11:41:20 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)
20.029 seconds elapsed during load.
SmarterASP
beginTime: Mon Apr 04 2022 11:44:01 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)
endTime: Mon Apr 04 2022 11:44:11 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)
10.146 seconds elapsed during load.
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Thanks very much, I really appreciate you taking time to do this for me.
It's very interesting data and looks like WinHost is at the very least 2X slower than SmarterASP.
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your benchmark is really good reference for me!
diligent hands rule....
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Cincinnati OH - WinHost 6.571 secs, SmarterASP 0.883 secs
Through our corporate VPN (somewhere in Texas) WinHost 4.603 secs, SmarterASP 3.468 secs (but our VPN is slow at everything)
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Thanks for running the tests & posting results. WinHost does seem to be consistently & drastically slower.
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WinHost Site: 7.85
SmarterASP.net site: 2.075
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Thanks very much. It looks like the difference is holding up around the world & is related to the host.
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WinHost : 24.0
SmarterASP : 1.3
The DDOS exception is legit, imho.
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Thanks for trying it out & posting.
It's amazing how extreme the difference was in your (case 24s versus 1.3s).
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The DDOS exception is not being willing to find a solution to me, charge a bit more and put your website behind a CDN
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To me (Italy)
WinHost sits at 11.299 and
SmarterASP.net at 10.812
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very interesting that both of them are in the same range from Italy.
thanks very much for running the test.
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beginTime: Tue Apr 05 2022 10:46:33 GMT+0300 (Arabian Standard Time)
endTime: Tue Apr 05 2022 10:49:24 GMT+0300 (Arabian Standard Time)
171.89 seconds elapsed during load.
beginTime: Tue Apr 05 2022 10:46:32 GMT+0300 (Arabian Standard Time)
endTime: Tue Apr 05 2022 10:48:31 GMT+0300 (Arabian Standard Time)
119.208 seconds elapsed during load.
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Are you still using dial-up?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Thanks very much for trying this & reporting the results.
Wow! I was curious if times would be longer from other locations around the world (other than North America).
Someone reported that Italy was longer time too, but over 100 seconds is hardly even usable.
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WinHost: 12.8
SmarterASP.net: 1.6
So, night and day.
If you're still looking for a decent Windows-based hosting service, try an outfit called Liquid Six. They are just great.
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Thanks for trying it out & reporting. You saw similar differences that I & many others saw.
I will look into Liquid Six. Thanks for the tip.
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