FTP upload speed

Not sure if this question fits into this section of the forum, but I'm not sure where else it should go...

I regularly upload (via ftp) files up to ~200Mb to a website I have hosted with GoDaddy. With my old BT connection of around 8Mb/s upload speed, filezilla reported a transfer rate of about 1.2MiB/s max.

Now I've FTTP with a measured > 900Mb/s upload speed according to speed tests, I'd expect this to be dramatically improved. But no, if I'm lucky I get around 2MiB/s according to filezilla.

I'm wondering if GoDaddy have some sort of ftp cap in place, however they claim they don't. Yet what I find is that initially, I can see speeds of 12-16MiB/s which then over a period of 10s or so gradually drops to the 1-2MiB/s value. Starting another ftp immediately after I get the slower speed, so something is 'remembering' the cap.

Anyone have any ideas what might cause this?

check under transfer, speed limits and see if thats enabled in filezilla

No limits set in Filezilla and also max connections set to 10.

Try another FTP service and see if it's any quicker. I wouldn't be surprised if some shared hosting from GoDaddy is stuck in 2004 in terms of their capacity.

GoDaddy will have I/O limits which may vary by type of hosting and plan, this article is from a few years ago but may still be accurate for their current shared hosting plans https://www.godaddy.com/resources/skills/web-hosting...

It appears to show a 10240 kb/s (kilobits per second) I/O limit which ignoring overheads is about 1.28MB/s, maybe their system allows brief bursts above that rate or it takes time for the client to adapt to the limit hence appearing to start off faster.

GoDaddy would probably suggest upgrading to a more expensive package which it doesn't appear would make any difference or a VPS, but if you really wanted better speed and quality of hosting you'd be better off looking elsewhere.

Edited by miken06 (Thu 06-Jun-24 11:27:51)

Ahh i didn't realise they do limit their ftp service..

Godaddy is not the best place for hosting.......

Thanks, that would seem to agree with what I see, about 1.2-1.3Mb/s average over time. Anyone suggest a better hosting company - I need a few Gb of storage, ftp, SSL, email and Wordpress hosting? Ideally easy to setup, no heavy linux admin? Thanks.

Hi @keith969,

I use Ionos for my web host. I have an unlimited space (although they do limit the number files that you can totally upload per contract) with unlimited email addresses for under £20 per month. If you would like a recommendation link then drop me a PM or email me and I will send you details so that we can both benefit.

HTH,

In reply to a post by jpm:

Try another FTP service and see if it's any quicker. I wouldn't be surprised if some shared hosting from GoDaddy is stuck in 2004 in terms of their capacity.

Using FTP alone suggests being stuck in 2004, unless its actually SFTP.

Edited by alexatkin (Thu 06-Jun-24 16:37:24)

In reply to a post by alexatkin:

Using FTP alone suggests being stuck in 2004, unless its actually SFTP.

Why's that then? Is there something better to use (note: security is not an issue here, everything on the site or transferred is public domain).

If using WordPress hosting or you upload any PHP files or anything else relating to the admin back-end, the PHP files include server-side code that you do not want to make public, as it could provide useful information to someone wanting to attack your server.

Also by using FTP someone could alter the content being transferred in transit, so even if it is all public domain, it could arrive on your server with unwanted payloads and you would never know for sure.

Also by using SFTP, you have more chance of verifying the server's identity, that the one you are sending to is authentically the same one as when you setup the connection (via the host key), which in a way is a point of HTTPS as much as for the encryption in transit.

Sometimes when maintaining a CMS you may need to download or restore a database backup (or SQL dump) that was saved locally into the hosting file system by the server. This will also be highly sensitive data.

Edited by prlzx (Fri 07-Jun-24 00:58:12)

The flip side is that one customer can’t use up all the resources, giving a better service to the majority, I can see why they do it.

However, we use a company called guru.co.uk, they have been going for 20+ years with the same owners, I honestly can’t fault them. They also include allot of extras, that would usually be charged for, like offsite backups.

100GB of storage, 1TB of transfer, accelerated Wordpress, £8.99 month.

Thanks, I might just look at them. Trying to transfer a couple of files ~60Mb each and GoDaddy's ftp is running about 50K bits/s. I've had to set the fileZilla timeout off as even with a 2min timeout it is failing part way through the transfer. And of course tech support is out to lunch too.

Avoid GoDaddy, their service is complete rubbish.