diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index d744751e2..f0c63e051 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp v0.7.2
 	github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru/v2 v2.0.1
 	github.com/herumi/bls-go-binary v1.31.0
-	github.com/hitenjain14/fasthttp v0.0.0-20240131211206-9180af2dd7e0
+	github.com/hitenjain14/fasthttp v0.0.0-20240201092245-8e4835c0e974
 	github.com/influxdata/influxdb v1.8.3
 	github.com/klauspost/reedsolomon v1.11.8
 	github.com/lithammer/shortuuid/v3 v3.0.7
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 230cc6834..81c21f03e 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -299,8 +299,8 @@ github.com/hashicorp/hcl v1.0.0 h1:0Anlzjpi4vEasTeNFn2mLJgTSwt0+6sfsiTG8qcWGx4=
 github.com/hashicorp/hcl v1.0.0/go.mod h1:E5yfLk+7swimpb2L/Alb/PJmXilQ/rhwaUYs4T20WEQ=
 github.com/herumi/bls-go-binary v1.31.0 h1:L1goQ2tMtGgpXCg5AwHAdJQpLs/pfnWWEc3Wog6OhmI=
 github.com/herumi/bls-go-binary v1.31.0/go.mod h1:O4Vp1AfR4raRGwFeQpr9X/PQtncEicMoOe6BQt1oX0Y=
-github.com/hitenjain14/fasthttp v0.0.0-20240131211206-9180af2dd7e0 h1:wOau/5lP3w3DlozOYbDp6mbSSjcXaEGkWPlgUuEPvY0=
-github.com/hitenjain14/fasthttp v0.0.0-20240131211206-9180af2dd7e0/go.mod h1:RZMcXy7u4S+E97IXYTe7WHZ3+mCYOh4vys8PkIGZeXk=
+github.com/hitenjain14/fasthttp v0.0.0-20240201092245-8e4835c0e974 h1:oEjH9SSKBlzwDyYjzZaqRpxo7GlfUJCyRoOk7QHKSDs=
+github.com/hitenjain14/fasthttp v0.0.0-20240201092245-8e4835c0e974/go.mod h1:RZMcXy7u4S+E97IXYTe7WHZ3+mCYOh4vys8PkIGZeXk=
 github.com/holiman/bloomfilter/v2 v2.0.3 h1:73e0e/V0tCydx14a0SCYS/EWCxgwLZ18CZcZKVu0fao=
 github.com/holiman/bloomfilter/v2 v2.0.3/go.mod h1:zpoh+gs7qcpqrHr3dB55AMiJwo0iURXE7ZOP9L9hSkA=
 github.com/holiman/uint256 v1.2.2-0.20230321075855-87b91420868c h1:DZfsyhDK1hnSS5lH8l+JggqzEleHteTYfutAiVlSUM8=
diff --git a/zboxcore/sdk/allocation.go b/zboxcore/sdk/allocation.go
index 649d554cf..c2a4c0f46 100644
--- a/zboxcore/sdk/allocation.go
+++ b/zboxcore/sdk/allocation.go
@@ -309,6 +309,9 @@ func (a *Allocation) InitAllocation() {
 	a.downloadRequests = make([]*DownloadRequest, 0, 100)
 	a.mutex = &sync.Mutex{}
 	a.fullconsensus, a.consensusThreshold = a.getConsensuses()
+	for _, blobber := range a.Blobbers {
+		zboxutil.SetHostClient(blobber.ID, blobber.Baseurl)
+	}
 	a.startWorker(a.ctx)
 	InitCommitWorker(a.Blobbers)
 	InitBlockDownloader(a.Blobbers, downloadWorkerCount)
diff --git a/zboxcore/sdk/blockdownloadworker.go b/zboxcore/sdk/blockdownloadworker.go
index f0394b24b..81b3f2375 100644
--- a/zboxcore/sdk/blockdownloadworker.go
+++ b/zboxcore/sdk/blockdownloadworker.go
@@ -75,13 +75,14 @@ func InitBlockDownloader(blobbers []*blockchain.StorageNode, workerCount int) {
 	for _, blobber := range blobbers {
 		if _, ok := downloadBlockChan[blobber.ID]; !ok {
 			downloadBlockChan[blobber.ID] = make(chan *BlockDownloadRequest, workerCount)
-			go startBlockDownloadWorker(downloadBlockChan[blobber.ID], workerCount)
+			go startBlockDownloadWorker(downloadBlockChan[blobber.ID], workerCount, blobber.ID)
 		}
 	}
 }
 
-func startBlockDownloadWorker(blobberChan chan *BlockDownloadRequest, workers int) {
+func startBlockDownloadWorker(blobberChan chan *BlockDownloadRequest, workers int, id string) {
 	sem := semaphore.NewWeighted(int64(workers))
+	hostClient := zboxutil.GetHostClient(id)
 	for {
 		blockDownloadReq, open := <-blobberChan
 		if !open {
@@ -92,7 +93,7 @@ func startBlockDownloadWorker(blobberChan chan *BlockDownloadRequest, workers in
 			continue
 		}
 		go func() {
-			blockDownloadReq.downloadBlobberBlock()
+			blockDownloadReq.downloadBlobberBlock(hostClient)
 			sem.Release(1)
 		}()
 	}
@@ -111,7 +112,7 @@ func (req *BlockDownloadRequest) splitData(buf []byte, lim int) [][]byte {
 	return chunks
 }
 
-func (req *BlockDownloadRequest) downloadBlobberBlock() {
+func (req *BlockDownloadRequest) downloadBlobberBlock(hostClient *fasthttp.HostClient) {
 	if req.numBlocks <= 0 {
 		req.result <- &downloadBlock{Success: false, idx: req.blobberIdx, err: errors.New("invalid_request", "Invalid number of blocks for download")}
 		return
@@ -150,7 +151,7 @@ func (req *BlockDownloadRequest) downloadBlobberBlock() {
 		header.ToFastHeader(httpreq)
 
 		err = func() error {
-			statuscode, respBuf, err := zboxutil.FastHttpClient.GetWithRequestTimeout(httpreq, req.respBuf, 30*time.Second)
+			statuscode, respBuf, err := hostClient.GetWithRequestTimeout(httpreq, req.respBuf, 30*time.Second)
 			fasthttp.ReleaseRequest(httpreq)
 			if err != nil {
 				zlogger.Logger.Error("Error downloading block: ", err)
diff --git a/zboxcore/zboxutil/http.go b/zboxcore/zboxutil/http.go
index 77071175c..2d347a65a 100644
--- a/zboxcore/zboxutil/http.go
+++ b/zboxcore/zboxutil/http.go
@@ -39,11 +39,13 @@ type HttpClient interface {
 	Do(req *http.Request) (*http.Response, error)
 }
 
-var Client HttpClient
-
-var FastHttpClient *fasthttp.Client
-
-var log logger.Logger
+var (
+	Client         HttpClient
+	FastHttpClient *fasthttp.Client
+	HostClientMap  = make(map[string]*fasthttp.HostClient)
+	hostLock       sync.RWMutex
+	log            logger.Logger
+)
 
 func GetLogger() *logger.Logger {
 	return &log
@@ -125,6 +127,33 @@ func (pfe *proxyFromEnv) isLoopback(host string) (ok bool) {
 	return net.ParseIP(host).IsLoopback()
 }
 
+func SetHostClient(id, baseURL string) {
+	hostLock.Lock()
+	defer hostLock.Unlock()
+	if _, ok := HostClientMap[id]; !ok {
+		u, _ := url.Parse(baseURL)
+		host := fasthttp.AddMissingPort(u.Host, true)
+		HostClientMap[id] = &fasthttp.HostClient{
+			NoDefaultUserAgentHeader:      true,
+			Addr:                          host,
+			MaxIdleConnDuration:           1 * time.Hour,
+			DisableHeaderNamesNormalizing: true,
+			DisablePathNormalizing:        true,
+			Dial: (&fasthttp.TCPDialer{
+				Concurrency:      4096,
+				DNSCacheDuration: time.Hour,
+			}).Dial,
+			IsTLS: true,
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func GetHostClient(id string) *fasthttp.HostClient {
+	hostLock.RLock()
+	defer hostLock.RUnlock()
+	return HostClientMap[id]
+}
+
 func (pfe *proxyFromEnv) Proxy(req *http.Request) (proxy *url.URL, err error) {
 	if pfe.isLoopback(req.URL.Host) {
 		switch req.URL.Scheme {