ADSL and Web Servers

[dgcarter]

I finally managed to get my web server working, until I noticed, how slow it was mking the rest of my network, I have a Telkom ADSL 5102g Router and my server is a 2.6Ghz Intel Celeron, with 512mb Ram so the hardware is good, and I an running Apache web server with PHP5 and MySQL 2005 as well as Mailenable Mail Server.

I have a 512 ADSL Line with telkom, and whenever I put my server on its slows down my internet speed BADLY.

Is this normal?

 

[bwana]

Unless someone is hitting your web server heavily I wouldnt expect that to happen. A few large emails going either way at any given time could slow things down - remember its ADSL and your upstream is half the size of your downstream.

 

[dgcarter]

No, emails were being sent, and no one knows about my site. We have only been doing tests.

 

[bwana]

No, emails were being sent

I'm confused by the ',' - were emails being sent?

What os are you running apache under?

 

[ziglet]

Well when people are browsing your site, they will be using your upload speed of you DSL and if im correct this would affect your download speed aswell...

I see it happen quite a lot on my line, downloading at max speed, send an email and just watch my downloading speed drop like a brick.

 

[masticore]

remember its ADSL and your upstream is half the size of your downstream.

I'm sure you know this bwana, but just for clarity:

ADSL does not imply your upstream is half the speed of your downstream, but just that the speeds differ. A line that is 1Mb down and 950Kb up is still technically an ADSL line. In overseas countries the differences are more significant than in ZA because their downstreams are higher (e.g. 8Mb down and 512Kb up.)

When Telkom first introduced ADSL in ZA, it was actually DSL (the up and down streams were the same at 512K), then they "fixed" it and pissed off the P2P'ers