DA Server Slow?

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apryan

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Is it just me or does it really seem slow as hell? DA's self server doesn't seem to be running that fast. Downloads of images take a good bit at time. It definatly is not related at all to my machine since I'm running dual processors and have successfully tested every possible conclusion of what it could be. It's DA.

Any word on if DA's speed can be increased besides having to add more child processes? John are you seeing any 'slowness'?
 
Are you referring to the enhanced theme control panel? I notice over ssl, it is not the fastest and I have nobody on my DA server. I wonder if Images have been compressed :)
 
I've never noticed DA to be slow. Of course my DA systems are adequately sized for their load, and on a 100 MBPS connection. My home office is on a 3 MBPS connection.

And I use mozilla, which is known to render fairly quickly.

Is your browser cacheing images for ssl connections? Some don't.

Jeff
 
I use FireFox, server has a 100Mbps connection to net, no clients, dual Xenons, 3GB memory, etc, etc. DA over SSL for me is not slow, but it is not fast.
 
Well... I'm not running DA over SSL atm. I have a dual fbsd 64bit machine on several gig-e pipes. I have a 4mb cable line from comcast.

DA's "Enhanced" template loads very slow when I click through the links in the admin pannel. I have 10 servers up atm for DA only. It loads rather slow.

I am using Mozilla as well. The catching is much faster then it was on IE, but its still slow. Even DA's Demo site is slow to me.

ideas?
 
Hello,

The ssl setup is about as fast as it's going to get without reworking DA to keep a connection open. Right now it's one request per connection, then it's closed. The extra overhead of ssl connections is what would be slowing it down, not much to be done at the moment with it. The only real effective option would be to use the power_user skin (fastest), or default skin as they have far fewer images, but they're not as pretty ;)

John
 
Yes, I agree. The template is by far one reason i got it. :=\.
Hope something else can be done in the future with this.
 
John,
Are the images for enhanced skin compressed or "optimized"? What is the average image size in the enhanced skin?
 
Perhaps it has something to do with Apache's Keep Alive being off?
That would require a new connection for every single files (image/js/css/etc) and thus add extra overhead and make it load slower
 
Daijoubu said:
Perhaps it has something to do with Apache's Keep Alive being off?
That would require a new connection for every single files (image/js/css/etc) and thus add extra overhead and make it load slower
Click to expand...

That could be a reason that apache is slow, but DirectAdmin does not run off apache, it runs as a standalone so apache settings have no affect on DirectAdmin.
 
You're right :)
I didn't knew DA had it own "httpd"
But it seems like Keep-Alive isn't enabled/implemented in DA Deamon

Connection: Close

No gzipping too
 
Actually I think it is quite fast already, its just the enhanced theme that slows it down a bit.
 
My slowest production server is a 1Ghz server; it uses the enhanced theme.

And DA is very fast.

Jeff
 
DA's server using enhanced theme *is* slow. Again, I'd like to see this changed before the next release. Probably make it a priority.
 
By default pages loading under a secure connection load more slowly than pages loading under an insecure connection.

For two reasons:

1) it takes some (usually small) amount of time to encrypt and decrypt the communication.

2) in most cases pages and page elements sent securely are (for security reasons) not cached on your local browser so they must be resent each time they're needed.

While DA for the most part uses dynamic pages which are always resent, the slowness is probably because the images aren't being cached.

So to speed up the skin you'd have to redesign it to use less images.

Then it wouldn't be the enhanced skin anymore, would it?

Jeff
 
DA isn't using https :confused:
Images are cached...
It's because there's no Keep-Alive, thus a new connection needs to be made for every image/file
 
Thanks for the clarification.

For us that doesn't seem to make a difference.

Jeff
 
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