From outside of my house, whenever I login to my Ubuntu server using SSH, it takes about 6 seconds for me to get the prompt for password, however when I login to my web hosting server it takes about 1 second. What can I do to speed this up?
$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.1"
$ ssh -v
OpenSSH_4.7p1 Debian-8ubuntu1.2, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
model name : Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 1210
cpu MHz : 1000.000
cache size : 1024 KB
$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 2074528 kB