Firewall Affecting Website Page Load Speed?

Hello,

I am in the process of creating a website for my wife's clothing
embroidery business. I am close to pushing it to "production" on the
Web. The site is already sitting on the Web, but users are re-
directed to an "Under Construction" page when they access my URL.

One issue that concerns me is page load speed. When I try accessing
my site at work (within my company's firewall), almost all of my pages
take 2-3 minutes to load. One of the pages contains many images, but
all of the others have one or two images on the page. Almost all of
my pages connect to a database (SQL Server 2005), but do basic queries
to retrieve data for dropdowns, strings for image names, etc.

The reason I think this may be firewall-related is because I have had
several friends and acquaintances access the site (providing them
direct links to specific pages within my site) from their homes and/or
work locations and all of the pages will return in five (5) seconds or
less.

What, if anything, could be restricting my ability to access my
website's pages from work in a timely manner? Why am I not
experiencing this "phenomenon" with any other sites?

I am hosting this website at home on a machine running Windows XP Pro
using IIS.

Thanks in advance for your assistance!

Kevin G.

Re: Firewall Affecting Website Page Load Speed?

Hi,

> I am hosting this website at home on a machine running Windows XP Pro
> using IIS.

And now you wanted to start to tell us, what the firewall and internet
conneciton setup at your workplace is.

Else we have to use the crystal balls.

Cheers,
Jens

Re: Firewall Affecting Website Page Load Speed?

What specific information would you need to help diagnose the problem?

Is there any information that I could retrieve from the command line
that would help you diagnose?

At work, we use a proxy server for our Internet connection.

Thanks,
Kevin

On May 30, 12:49 pm, Jens Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I am hosting this website at home on a machine running Windows XP Pro
> > using IIS.
>
> And now you wanted to start to tell us, what the firewall and internet
> conneciton setup at your workplace is.
>
> Else we have to use the crystal balls.
>
> Cheers,
> Jens

Re: Firewall Affecting Website Page Load Speed?

In article <1180544618.987669.197170@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
KevinGravelle@gmail.com says...
> What specific information would you need to help diagnose the problem?
>
> Is there any information that I could retrieve from the command line
> that would help you diagnose?
>
> At work, we use a proxy server for our Internet connection.

If your site is fast outside the company, and your friends confirm that,
then why do you care if it's slow from your office? Unless you are
building the site for the company you work for you are wasting company
time on personal business.

--

Leythos
- Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
- Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented worker" is like calling a
drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist"
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Re: Firewall Affecting Website Page Load Speed?

It's for peace of mind, that's why I care.

On May 30, 1:05 pm, Leythos wrote:
> In article <1180544618.987669.197...@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
> KevinGrave...@gmail.com says...
>
> > What specific information would you need to help diagnose the problem?
>
> > Is there any information that I could retrieve from the command line
> > that would help you diagnose?
>
> > At work, we use a proxy server for our Internet connection.
>
> If your site is fast outside the company, and your friends confirm that,
> then why do you care if it's slow from your office? Unless you are
> building the site for the company you work for you are wasting company
> time on personal business.
>
> --
>
> Leythos
> - Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
> - Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented worker" is like calling a
> drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist"
> spam999f...@rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address)

Re: Firewall Affecting Website Page Load Speed?

In article <1180545311.744773.129060@p47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>,
KevinGravelle@gmail.com says...
> It's for peace of mind, that's why I care.

Well, since you're at work, you don't have much of complaint in it being
slow.

You do understand that Windows XP only supports 10 connections, that you
could be saturating it, that your proxy could be using more than 10
connections, that your website could be compromised and have used the 10
connections...

--

Leythos
- Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
- Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented worker" is like calling a
drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist"
spam999free@rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address)

Re: Firewall Affecting Website Page Load Speed?

Yes, I am aware of the 10 connection limit with Windows XP. I'm
considering switching to Apache because of this.

Thanks for your input.

Kevin

On May 30, 2:02 pm, Leythos wrote:
> In article <1180545311.744773.129...@p47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>,
> KevinGrave...@gmail.com says...
>
> > It's for peace of mind, that's why I care.
>
> Well, since you're at work, you don't have much of complaint in it being
> slow.
>
> You do understand that Windows XP only supports 10 connections, that you
> could be saturating it, that your proxy could be using more than 10
> connections, that your website could be compromised and have used the 10
> connections...
>
> --
>
> Leythos
> - Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
> - Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented worker" is like calling a
> drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist"
> spam999f...@rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address)

Re: Firewall Affecting Website Page Load Speed?

In article <1180551466.186054.269240@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>,
KevinGravelle@gmail.com says...
> Yes, I am aware of the 10 connection limit with Windows XP. I'm
> considering switching to Apache because of this.
>
> Thanks for your input.

Why not switch to Windows 2003? You can get the Action Pack as a web
hosting company for $400 and it comes with XP, Vista, Windows 2003
Standard, Ent, Web, SBS 2003 Prem R2, MS Office, etc....

If you are going to be hosting websites then you are a hosting provider,
that qualifies you for the Microsoft Action Pack subscription.

--

Leythos
- Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
- Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented worker" is like calling a
drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist"
spam999free@rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address)

Re: Firewall Affecting Website Page Load Speed?

"Kevin G." wrote in message
news:1180542548.173573.300090@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com.. .
> Hello,
>
> I am in the process of creating a website for my wife's clothing
> embroidery business. I am close to pushing it to "production" on the
> Web. The site is already sitting on the Web, but users are re-
> directed to an "Under Construction" page when they access my URL.
>
> One issue that concerns me is page load speed. When I try accessing
> my site at work (within my company's firewall), almost all of my pages
> take 2-3 minutes to load. One of the pages contains many images, but
> all of the others have one or two images on the page. Almost all of
> my pages connect to a database (SQL Server 2005), but do basic queries
> to retrieve data for dropdowns, strings for image names, etc.
>
> The reason I think this may be firewall-related is because I have had
> several friends and acquaintances access the site (providing them
> direct links to specific pages within my site) from their homes and/or
> work locations and all of the pages will return in five (5) seconds or
> less.
>
> What, if anything, could be restricting my ability to access my
> website's pages from work in a timely manner? Why am I not
> experiencing this "phenomenon" with any other sites?
>
> I am hosting this website at home on a machine running Windows XP Pro
> using IIS.
>
> Thanks in advance for your assistance!

You're putting up a Web site with solutions you wrote?
You're using IIS on Windows XP.
You have SQL Server running on the same box.
You have not secured the O/S, file system, registry, user accounts, or IIS
itself for a machine that's exposed to the Internet.
Most likely, you have not even secured SQL server.

Do you even know what is in the link means, which I suspect the Web
solutions and everything else on that machine is open to attack.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting

I read the part about you may go to Apache. It doesn't make a difference
what Web server you use or what O/S you use too.

If you have not done your home work on the security aspects, then the site
is nothing but hack bait and a jumping off point to attack others and
possibly other networks.

You may have more concerns than some page download speed.