Occasionally, my ISP (BT) does lack in connection speed. It’s not necessarily their fault, but one of the links or bridges connecting is slow. I was downloading some large mixes that a friend had done on his server, but I was only getting 40KB/s on a 200mb file, slow. I thought about it, and was wondering how I can use my dreamhost server to my advantage. I asked a couple of friends, and a mate, William told me about the SSH function, wget.
WGET tells the server to download a file of another server. As my dreamhost server sits in a huge data center with huge pipes hooked up to it I can hit speeds that I can only dream of. I know that I can hit high speeds when downloading files from my server, roughly 700KB/s – which is nearly topping out my home internet connection. Once I told the server what to download, i was hitting file transfer rates on 10MB/s on some (server to server).
So how do we go about downloading files then?
First we need to SSH into our server;
user@example.com - then we enter our password once prompted.
once we are logged in – simply type
“wget [insertthefilelocation]”
After our files have been downloading, simply log into your server via ftp and downloading your files.
Arjay – ha-ha, I know – I just hate being stuck inside all day 