The cause of slow servers usually lays with the web host. You could be having a slow site because you are hosted on a free web hosting. You are on a low quality hosting service with poor support. Or your site needs a higher spec hosting account with more resources eg a VPS.

What is the fastest server?

• Apache 2.2 (both prefork, thread and event versions)
• Nginx 1.1.
• Lighttpd 1.4.
• Varnish 3.0.
• Squid 3.1.

How do I know if my server is slow?

Running a ping test can help you determine if your website is slow because of a connection issue. If it is, then running a traceroute test can help you to determine where in the connection there is a slowdown. If you’re on Windows you might also find it handy to use PingPlotter to help troubleshoot network slowdowns.