Re: Re: Server upload test

Jason Wong wrote:

On Saturday 18 September 2004 05:22, Richard Whitney wrote:

And just what metrics do you hope to be measuring (if any)? Or is this just for the fun of it?

I have a client who was going to host his website at a particular host. It seemed rather slow so I wrote this liittle script to display the difference between that host and mine - just a visual test of the backbone behind each server. I guess this is kind of OT Huh?

Well with your code it seems to be more of a test of the cpu speed (or maybe even hdd speed) rather than the internet connection. Assuming that the host's cpu speed is a known (and (fairly) easily quantifiable) quantity, then I would assume you're trying to test the connection speed, in which case why not just serve a static file and leave php out of it? To add to what jason says, i believe this kind of timer will not work at all with PHP because the php script gets into the action only after all the post data has been recieved.

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