Some bandwidth and ping RTT figures for Hetzner, QuickPacket and NOCIX

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I thought someone might find this data interesting.

I have had two servers in Hetzner and QuickPacket for some years, and recently decided to replace them with upgraded hardware. QuickPacket still offers the same hardware I got, and prices for more powerful machines go up quickly, so I've decided to look into other providers.

This has led me to get a dedicated server with NOCIX (previous DataShack). Specs and price are really good.

These servers are intended to serve the same content to different countries, and I have set them up with Geo-DNS. As part of their monitoring, I have them pinging machines in other countries of the world to measure latency. In the following screenshot, the de machine is in Hetzner, us in QuickPacket, and us2 in NOCIX:

Except for Australia, and the UK, ping RTTs are consistently lower from QuickPacket than from NOCIX—considerably so.

I also used iperf to measure bandwidth between my own machines and these servers, and came up with the following figures:

Transfer to my own computer are consistently low, even though my connection is 200 Mbps cable, and Speedtest reports a bandwidth of 165.78 Mbps. This I find extremely disconcerting.

Apart from this, Hetzner has the lowest absolute bandwidth as server, and NOCIX the highest.

All in all, I don't think this test with NOCIX is going to go any further for me. In terms of latency it seems a step back from QuickPacket, which is the whole reason of having this geographic setup.