Would I benefit if I move my website server closer to NZ if I already use Cloudflare?

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#311015 6-Dec-2023 21:12

Hi team,

I run a small modest website called whatsthesalary.com that has hosting from the UK, with Cloudflare active and most of the grunt is using AWS Lambda.

The simple, single page website generates around 70,000 page views per month, so it's not a huge amount.

As I had purchased the hosting account (Hostinger) while I was living in the UK, and that the majority of the traffic to my website is from Australia and New Zealand - would the website load faster if I move the server to one of Hostinger's Asia servers (Indonesia), or completely moving hosting providers to a AU/NZ one.

Overall, I'm seeing if there'll be speed benefits in page load with moving the server closer.

Thanks team, this is totally out of my depth!

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#3169061 6-Dec-2023 21:23

What kind of benefit are you looking for?

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#3169063 6-Dec-2023 21:30

gzt: What kind of benefit are you looking for?

Sorry, I should have said but I'm seeing if there'll be speed benefits in page load.

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#3169065 6-Dec-2023 21:37

on spark fibre the site loads pretty fast already

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#3169075 6-Dec-2023 22:09

Loads fast on 2degrees fibre

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#3169079 6-Dec-2023 22:48

Looking through developer tools the page itself is pretty fast to load, although the longest time is "Waiting for server response" at ~600 ms

Your CSS and JS files seem to be cached.

Having a local server would probably half that time.

It is not a fair comparison because our homepage is dynamic with a different server stack, but I have our servers in Auckland (colocated at Datacom), and with transit through Cloudflare, the "Waiting for server response" is around ~300 ms.

Without considering anything else, I would guess a gain of around 250 - 300 ms for your page load - but I am not sure this would be something perceptible.

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#3169153 7-Dec-2023 09:33

freitasm:

Looking through developer tools the page itself is pretty fast to load, although the longest time is "Waiting for server response" at ~600 ms

Your CSS and JS files seem to be cached.

Having a local server would probably half that time.

It is not a fair comparison because our homepage is dynamic with a different server stack, but I have our servers in Auckland (colocated at Datacom), and with transit through Cloudflare, the "Waiting for server response" is around ~300 ms.

Without considering anything else, I would guess a gain of around 250 - 300 ms for your page load - but I am not sure this would be something perceptible.

Thanks, exactly the answer I'm after. Sounds like the improvement would be minimal.

Think I'll leave the server as it is as changing servers will mean changing IP addresses and fiddling with changes in Cloudflare again.

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