Hey Craig/Darren,
Thought I'd post up some speedtest results here for you.
From a server located in Chicago (SingleHop), connected at 1Gbits:
Code:
--2011-04-29 17:26:06-- http://108.59.1.1/test.file
Connecting to 108.59.1.1:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 524288000 (500M) [text/plain]
Saving to: `/dev/null'
100%[=========================================================================================================================>] 524,288,000 33.8M/s in 25s
2011-04-29 17:26:31 (20.1 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [524288000/524288000]
Pretty average, considering my server was connected at 1gbit and is generally 95% redundant (barely any network activity on this one, except light DB transactions). It started out real slow, but climbed up about a quarter way through.
From a server in PhoenixNAP (Atlanta), connected at 1Gbit
Code:
--2011-04-29 15:22:40-- http://108.59.1.1/test.file
Connecting to 108.59.1.1:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 524288000 (500M) [text/plain]
Saving to: `/dev/null'
100%[=========================================================================================================================>] 524,288,000 1.49M/s in 7m 25s
2011-04-29 15:30:05 (1.12 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [524288000/524288000]
Very slow. Probably poor routing/peering. But, kinda disappointed. Just like the above, this one has a lot of redundant capacity too. But seeing it top out at maximum 10mbps was a let down. I could PM you traceroute and such if you need them to look into it, just lemme know.
From a server in Los Angeles (WebNX), connected at 100mbps
Code:
--2011-04-29 15:23:05-- http://108.59.1.1/test.file
Connecting to 108.59.1.1:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 524288000 (500M) [text/plain]
Saving to: `/dev/null'
100%[=========================================================================================================================>] 524,288,000 11.2M/s in 46s
2011-04-29 15:23:50 (11.0 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [524288000/524288000]
Topped out. Pretty, pretty good!
Softlayer, (100TB) connected at 1Gbit
Code:
--2011-04-29 17:23:07-- http://108.59.1.1/test.file
Connecting to 108.59.1.1:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 524288000 (500M) [text/plain]
Saving to: `/dev/null'
100%[=========================================================================================================================>] 524,288,000 18.0M/s in 28s
2011-04-29 17:23:36 (17.8 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [524288000/524288000]
About the same as that from SingleHop. Not bad, but not really impressive. Maybe poor routing/peering again, on this one? Oh and this server also has redundant bandwidth all the time.
Overall, the results are average. Not really noticeable on a 100mbps connection, but for servers connected at 1Gbit, the network performance is average. Probably needs some time and/or tweak.
I also noticed you guys have a tad higher pricing on the US servers. You think those prices will be going down? Or stay that way and then rise? Because from what I've seen (I actively monitor/research the dedicated server market) servers in the US are generally cheaper compared to those in the EU/NL.
