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Ask YC: having trouble making apps fast worldwide (in India now)
Technical question. I know how to make an app scale (use EC2, smart coding), I know how to make it fairly responsive (cache stuff, etc).<p>But I'm in India now and my sites are really quite slow. They're not slow when accessed from Europe/US. Google is not slow. My sites are though. Why is that? The server is not loaded. The database is not loaded.<p>And how can you make your apps fast worldwide? How do you measure it? What are the cheap ways of doing it?<p>Tnx!!
- petervandijck 17y agoFor example, Facebook is damn crazy fast here in India. My sites just load reaaal slow (lots of seconds more than usual, the normal is like half a second). It's not just the slow connections here, it's not server load. It must be distance to the server. But how can I fix that, on a budget?
- jacquesm 17y agofind a hosting service somewhere, run your own proxy and gzip everything on passthrough ? Shut off image loading ? Adblocker ? Local proxy with a fat cache ? Lots of stuff is dynamic though, for those only the gzip trick will work.