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Can anyone from the US help me with a test?
I would like to know if the app in my signature is fast enough from the US, both east and west coast. If anyone has a couple of minutes to spare please sign up, create a board, some feedbacks, comments etc, just to see if it's snappy, especially the realtime features. Please ket me know your location also if you don't mind (DM if you prefer). Thanks in advance
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What do you mean by "fast enough"?
maybe he’s hosting it on servers located in the EU or something and wants to know if its snappy and responsive in the US?
or maybe he’s trying to spread malware lol
he’s using cloudflare, so it should be snappy?
There are better ways to profile your application than to ask randos with random internet connections to try it out.
Sounds like way too much effort, too.
Does the user interface react to your server in real time or just on posts?
The snappiness is more dependent on good code, not rtt. Posting large data over distance does, though.
So the app has quite a lot of real-time features using websockets, and since I am targeting European and US users, I want to make sure that these features do feel "real-time".
For my own testing I've been introducing artificial latency with the Chrome dev tools, but it would be nice to have some feedback from other users in actually different locations because that's more realistic.
Correct, the servers are here in Finland. I love Cloudflare, but while it's amazing for static content, it actually adds latency for dynamic content, so I have even considered removing it. But I think I'll keep it if performance is good enough.
For example?
Oh, really? It takes a few moments to sign up and create a board.
Yes, there is a lot of real-time interaction. It's a retrospective tool, so all participants to a retro see exactly the same thing in real time.
What about using Cloudflare Workers acting as lightweight clients?
I haven't thought about that, but it sounds a bit complicated compared to asking someone from the US to just take a look
Honestly, I say give a VPN a try or setting up RDP, VNC, X11 forwarding, ssh tunnel/proxy, and so on on a VPS (there's plenty of cheap ones on here if you don't already have one). Sure, there will be a little more latency but I think it will be better than the artificial latency in dev tools and it will enable you to test/debug it yourself.
A VPN isn't very realistic though because it would be a two way connection, right?
yeah, there is the additional latency from you to the node but I still think it will be more accurate than the artificial dev tools route. Using a VPS where you just have the screen "transferred" to you will be even more accurate. If it performs acceptable for you doing either option, then it will be better for actual users/customers
Yea I only clicked the post cuz I thought you wanted an mtr or something.
Even a signup process is too much effort sorry.
Looks like you got some though!