My website is hosted on a server in Australia (com.au). I do not use a CDN
I only target an Australian audience
Does pagespeed use an Australian server? It seems to me, if pagespeed servers are not in Australia then it will result in a poor score?
Can anyone confirm?
Yes, based on this answer Pagespeed might report different results depending on your location.
https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/110397/do-pagespeed-insights-vary-by-location
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When configured my website on windows azure, I chose Est of USA for the Web site, and North Europe for database.
As you can guess, the performances are very bad, most of my users are in Europe.
Looking on msdn, they said it is not possible to change database of location.
So how can I change the location of my web site?
You need to redeploy your website code to a new Web Site, located in Europe. If you're using git, this should be as simple as setting up a new remote location to the new Web Site and re-doing a push.
In the future: Always deploy website + database in the same datacenter. This avoids performance latency as well as data egress costs out of the data center.
I do not see any application available that tracks the site traffic on a bluemix application. I am currently hosting a Node.js app, that people routinely visit. I want to know the number of visitors to my site but I am seeing no easy way to do this. Any help?
Bluemix does not provide an out-of-the-box solution that tracks visits to a hosted application. You would need to use a 3rd-party analytics tool, such as Google Analytics, or scour the log files.
I am porting a website to Microsoft Azure. But our clients are scattered throughout the world, so my intention is to deliver our website as fast as possible to our customers in the US as we do in Germany or China. So I was thinking about something like a CDN on application level for our PHP/Ubuntu-Environment.
I know, there is a CDN implementation for static pages in Microsoft Azure, but I do not have any idea as how to achieve this on the application level.
Thank you in advance.
I gone through official announcement of General availability of Virtual Machine on Windows Azure. so i would like to move one of my client's production app on this. Requirement to set up this app on 2 different regions as below
Basically we have two demographics from Australia and Turkey from where people will be accessing the server, So we need two web servers one from Australia and another from Europe
- 2 Web servers with Window server 2008 r2
- Separate Database server with SQL server
- One Load balancer
Queries
1) What data centers are best suited for above regions?
2) we are not concerned about up-time instead we are concerned about performance at locale
based so to run application on 1 VM is okay?
3) In which region database should be hosted so both web server can access smoothly
regardless of performance issue. what should be region of it?
4) Can we setup load balancing such a way for one url it would transfer request to
Australian server and for other transfer request to European server?
5) I have calculated price with
2 VM (small) for to host window server
1 vm (medium) to host sql server
35 GB bandwidth
support for developer and it would cost me around $300,
Do I need to consider other pricing apart from this?
As for data-centers best suited, I suggest using
1. Australia - South-East Asia
2. Turkey - West Europe/North Europe
Now for the other question....
1. if you are looking at performance at locale...then you should look for setting up Windows Azure Traffic Manager (Performance-based)...this will give you best performance based on closest hosted service....
2. Windows Azure Traffic Manager (Round-robin-based) will serve the expectation of one request to Australia and second to Europe.
Note: you can set either of the above two but not both. It is different from load-balancing which works within a region (Read more...Azure VM load balancing vs Traffic Manager)
There are other cost like transaction cost, storage cost, etc....I suggest you read Microsoft Azure cost model for details. (Read more...http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2010/07/09/understanding-windows-azure-storage-billing-bandwidth-transactions-and-capacity.aspx)
Bear in mind, VMs can recycle...you can also explore cloud services (web roles) for your requirements.
I would suspect that you'd get more performance improvements by having one SQL database server and one web server that are in the same data centre, than have two web servers close to your customers both accessing the same DB. There is going to be more communication between the web servers and the DB than there will be between the clients and the web servers. You can then choose which set of customers you most want to keep happy and then choose the data centre close to them. If you want to keep your Australian customers happy, then you have another choice, because for cities in NSW that have access to the Southern Cross Cable, they get better response times from US data centres than they do from the asian ones.
I bought a domain www.whatever.com and i'm currently using google apps.
Is there a way i can use one of my google sites as my website in my domain?
To explain myself better:
When anyone access my domain www.whatever.com i want people to see my google site i created with google apps.
Thankyou very much for your answers.
These links may help:
http://googlesitesblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/google-sites-on-your-domain.html
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99448
I think this question may be more suited to serverfault: https://serverfault.com/
Its called domain fowarding.
You go to your registrar and forward with masking or without masking your domain to the google app site home.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection
http://help.godaddy.com/article/422
I believe the service is called "Google Apps for Your Domain" see google apps for your domain. I hope this helps.