All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
Network latency from Moscow, Russia to some European countries
I saw an offer by one of the hosts on LET, and checked their network using the test IPs.
I found that the latency between Moscow and their Stockholm location is as low as 20 ms and there's only 4 hops in my traceroute output! I don't remember I've seen anything close to that with some other hosts and locations outside of Russia.
I guess the route that my packets are going through is a part of Rascom network which has direct connections to a number of major European cities.
The lowest latency between the cities according to WonderNetwork is 60 ms though, but their servers are likely routed through some different network.
Do you know any other hosting providers that could benefit from this or some other network which has a good connectivity to other European countries? I would like to buy a VPS or two.
Comments
hetzner Finland has 15ms
Edit: https://dnstools.ws/ping/hel.icmp.hetzner.com/?proto=Ipv4&workers=ru
Not from MSK side, but from whole Russia - closest countries is Fi (yep, hetzner), LT (time4vps, bacloud for example), and Estonia. But from Estonia I don't know LET-priced hosts.
Unfortunately, the best I'm getting from my location is 52 ms. And oddly enough the traceroute output shows that my packets are routed through Sweden:
Thanks anyway! I'm going to check back in a few days and see if the routes changed.
Time4vps:
Bacloud:
Something might be wrong with my network, many destinations are routed through Sweden.
Thanks for the suggestions anyway!
Maybe Level 3 or your ISP decided to not like each other anymore, so the connection is routed via a third party, vimpelcom that peers with level 3 in Stockholm? Seems runet will become the next gfw.
Yeah, must be something to do with my ISP's (Vimpelkom) network settings, because with the other ISP (Megafon), the latency to Finland and Lithuania is (a little) better:
hel.icmp.hetzner.com
in Helsinki.lg.time4vps.com
in Lithuania.lg-lt-eu.bacloud.com
in Lithuania.Much worse to the same host in Sweden on the other hand though, 55 ms avg.
For some reason, Megafon routes the packets through Germany, Spain, and Romania now instead of sending them directly to Sweden as Vimpelkom does:
Go figure.
But I'm an idiot and don't know much about networks and routing.
Grab some cheap vps from justhost and make tunnel.
Yeah, will give it a go. Thanks!