Latency between CP and Webservers

nqnoc

Hi,

My Control Panel server is hosted in Germanny and all my webservers are hosted around Europe (UK, NL, ES).

So latency from the CP to webservers is between 10 to 40ms. Until now I did not noticed any issues.

Anyone has an opinion on this? Will having latency of 40ms between CP and webserver can cause issues or latency wise problems?

Thanks

AdamM

nqnoc If you have "good" servers this is not noticeable.

Thomas_W

nqnoc this is pretty fine. I have servers in Asia and in Germany, there is a latency from up to 170 ms. The panel works still pretty fine.

You feel the latency at phpMyAdmin, there you will like to have better a phpMyAdmin at the server available, because it gets painful slow. Filemanager still works fine. Also the Webmail works still good.

But with 10-40ms you will not even reallize the latency. The speed of the server will makes a bigger difference.

nqnoc

AdamM servers are "good" 99% of the time 😉

Just wondering if a 10 vs 40ms latency between CP and Webservers make much of a difference in daily client usage, like browsing on CP, file manager uploads, etc..

cosmoshosting

No problems in terms of reliability. We have servers hosted in Europe and Australia with _250ms latency.
The interface is a tad little slow but usable.

What does kill you is the phpMyAdmin which is virtually unusable and probably defined as a strange and unusual punishment under some Geneva convention or something. Apparently Enhance are working on this issue.

nqnoc

cosmoshosting I had read the phomyadmin is slow with latency.

Do you find much of a difference in terms of file uploads using CP file manager?

cosmoshosting

nqnoc
File Manager is usable and snappy enough. Uploads are functional but not overly reliable for anything overly large.
I have experienced unusual throughput issues between networks which have ground the interface to a halt.

It's not as pleasant of an experience compared to cPanel or DirectAdmin.

Vendoz

nqnoc Just wondering if a 10 vs 40ms latency between CP and Webservers make much of a difference in daily client usage, like browsing on CP, file manager uploads, etc

No issue at all with that latency. I have some servers with ₅₀ latency and can’t notice differenze between the ₁₅ latency ones.

gmakhs

LAtency is a HUGE issue if you cluster spreads on different continents, specially if the user is using the file manager.

I believe enhance should add the option to host the control panel on diferent regions in a multi region - high HA setup , it was mentioned also on this forum a couple of years ago but doesnt seem to have a lot of traction as an idea.

slimx

I have servers in:
London | Turkiye | Sweden

CP Server in Sydney.
Latency to most of the countries is 270 - 290ms.

Panel works fine, at one stage I felt like the backups weren't working. After a few patches by the Enhance team it has stabilised. PHPMYADMIN Lag is noticable but still very usable.