VM Instance High Latency

[kcshoo]

I facing a high latency issue, core web vitals is showing "Reduce initial response time"

When I try to ping my VM instance (www.peoplex.ai), I've got average of 150ms round trip, I'm in Malaysia, the instance is deployed in "asia-southeast1-b" region.

I'm very new to GCP and I have no clue how to improve it.

I have another experimental website that is being hosted on a cheap low end hosting company (www.milokosong.com). When I try to ping this website, I've got an average of 9ms round trip.

Something doesn't seem right here. Any one here can advise me about how to resolve this problem?

[Marvin_Lucero]

Hi @kcshoo,

Based from the comparison that you've made, it may really give you a different latency or response time, considering that the two websites were hosted by two different providers. 

On your GCP console, try checking Network Intelligence > Performance Dashboard and check if there were latency. For packet loss under "Average packet loss between region pairs", you can also verify here if there really was a latency on users. 

Also, you can try doing a ping test using this Cloud ping test.  From there, you will be able to determine which regions and zones have an excellent latency, you might try to change the deployment zone of your VM instance. 

For you to improve and optimize the latency, let me give you a brief overview about it. When optimizing for latency, many system architects consider only network latency or distance between the user's ISP and the virtual machine instance. However, this is only one of many factors affecting user latency.

[kcshoo]

Thanks @Marvin_Lucero for the response.

When I check on the Network Inteligence > Performance Dashboard, the latency is about 150ms ~ 250ms... My VM instance is deployed in "asia-southeast1" region, which is the closest to my country "Malaysia"

When I check via Cloud ping test that you provided, asia-southeast1 is indeed the best region to deploy the server based on my country.

Therefore I'm curious how can a cheap shared hosting server can outperform GCP 😁