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My server is performing well. Three possible answers:
1. I'm lucky
2. You're unlucky
3. You had the wrong expectations
When one provider mouths off against another provider, especially (a) in an offer thread [which is generally frowned upon in the community rules], and (b) you don't have an established reputation, it stinks of unprofessionalism, tbh, and often doesn't end well.
I don't understand i'm not calling contabo bad??
What is the point of what your saying
I like contabo i use to co-locate with them all i said was their network was never impressive up against other providers so its no shocker that this is an issue
How's the connectivity to engage.cloudflareclient.com? Both IPv4 and v6. Also, any looking glass?
100+ms latency to one of the largest ISP's in Australia, I don't care how little the cost is, don't offer a Sydney-based service when you can't even get the local peering right.
If you need perfect peering Contabo obviously isn’t your go-to, no one is claiming that.
Out of curiosity what Data center are you located in, Within Australia?
Yeah I mean lol everyone seems to think contabo is supposed to have it right. They never had it right in any of their locations. Its decent for being cheap.
Their network is very poor. VPS performance is oversold. The main I/Os are very poor, especially 4K read and write
According to bgp.tools, Contabo AUS only has transit from HE and Lumen... In Australia...
What a joke.
https://bgp.tools/prefix/154.26.152.0/21#asinfo
I mean HE is alright but idk how their latency is this high tbh. Something ofc not right.
Did any australians previously use Contabo?
Does Contabo AU have better ping, on average, to Australia, compared to other Contabo locations?
If both is yes, it's better than before.
I'm sure they're selling quite well.
Let's not bump this thread with "Their network isn't Google!!!" every 3 hours, we know, and, frankly. nobody claimed that it is.
Internal peering is standard. Global Peering is prem. Contabo's Sydney location is garbage.
100ms SYD to SYD is not imperfect peering, it's terrible. For comparison SYD to SIN is ~90ms
My ping from Sydney -> Vultr Singapore
Just tried a random global ping tool, let's see the ping from Australian POPs at Bunny:
https://tools.bunny.net/latency-test?query=154.26.152.1
Again, you can show some horrible examples of routing since it's a low-end provider, but we're here to find low-end providers.
Google has one of the best networks that there is, go with them if milliseconds matter to a this extent that it's worth the extra money.
Welcome to Sydney, from our Sydney network:
I'm getting ~94ms ish from both AAPT IP line and Launtel (GSL) residential (!) connections in Melbourne and Sydney to Singapore
I wasn't disagreeing with you at all @Gravely - you did the right thing cancelling if you're getting 100ms from SYD to SYD - my point was that there's no point paying a premium for SYD hosting if SIN destinations were getting better pings than SYD! Those not in .au may not have an idea just how bad some routing can be from .au.
Sounds like a good opportunity for an offer
We can't beat them, the pricing for our upstreams are more expensive than theirs.
You don't have to beat them... We're unhappy with them