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Looking for providers interested in supporting a free global ping tool
jamaicagroove
Member
Hi everyone,
I’m working on NetworkWhois Global Ping https://networkwhois.com/global-ping, a free tool that lets people run ping, TCP port checks and MTR from different locations and share the results.
I contacted several providers, and one kindly offered VPS resources to get things started. I’m posting here to see whether other providers would be interested in helping.
We currently have VPSs in London, Frankfurt, The Hague, Bucharest, Timișoara, Silicon Valley, Dallas, Phoenix, New York / New Jersey, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
I’d appreciate a small VPS in any location, including those already listed. Different providers in the same city can have different networks and routes, so those contributions would be useful too.
Your smallest suitable plan is welcome. It needs to run Linux, Python 3, ping and MTR, with IPv4 connectivity and permission for outbound diagnostic traffic and HTTPS.
The VPS only runs the testing agent. The website and results are hosted separately. The agent currently uses around 9–15 MiB RAM, excluding the operating system. Tests are limited in duration and concurrency, and there are no bandwidth speed tests. I don’t yet have a reliable monthly traffic figure.
An ongoing contribution would be ideal, but a fixed period would also help. Please tell me the duration or end date so I can remove the VPS from the testing list when it is no longer available.
Contributing providers will have their logo and website link on my website, with their provider name shown beside their VPS locations on the Global Ping page. If the contribution ends, their logo will remain in the supporters section as thanks for their past help.
The tool is free to use, with no subscription or payment required. We don’t charge for any of the tools or ask visitors for payment.
If you’d like to help, please leave the best way to contact you, and I’ll get in touch. Any small VPS contribution would be appreciated.
Thanks for considering helping.
George 
Comments
i think you're looking for https://globalping.io/
Why?
https://globalping.io is there already why not just use/contribute to it?
https://globalping.io/
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I respect what they’ve built. NetworkWhois is a personal project I care about, and I’d like to keep developing it.
I know similar tools already exist, but I hope there’s room for a smaller project too. I posted because a little help from interested providers would let me expand it further.
WHY ?
Because I want to build it. Existing alternatives don’t make a personal project pointless. I posted to ask whether anyone was interested in helping. It’s fine if you’re not.
If you’d like to explain your point in more detail, I’m happy to have a short video call and hear you out.
I guess people would be more willing to help if you have something that would differentiate yourself from the already existing tools.
Finding people to sponsor resources just for “It's the same thing, but it's mine", is getting hard.
That’s fair. The site has free tools for JSON formatting, Docker Compose validation, cron generation, hashing, Base64 and text processing, alongside WHOIS, DNS and SSL checks. Global ping is one more tool in that collection. I wanted people to have these utilities available in the same place, and that’s where it fits into the project.
None of those utilities are special or new.
Hey George!
We'd be happy to support your project by providing a free 1GB Budget VPS in Toronto, Canada!
Our Budget VPS nodes run on Dual Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 processors (or equivalent), with DDR4 RAM, SSD storage, KVM virtualization, and IPv4 connectivity.
We'd love to contribute to a free tool that benefits the hosting community!
Feel free to shoot me a message, and we can get everything arranged for you.
https://enderhost.co
ok.
Hey, thank you! I really appreciate you offering to help. It’s encouraging to see people willing to give a small project a chance. Toronto would be a great addition, and I’ll send you a message so we can arrange everything. Thanks
Of course!
I also want to build a new White House looking for building material sponsorships.
I will build you a bunker under the house only for the sponsors to put their DC in.
Ok.
Everyone is asking “why”. I thought the answer should be obvious: OP wants providers to subsidize his personal VPN and mask that traffic with a network tool excuse.
[insert your preferred racial abuse here]
Thank you to everyone who’s reached out privately and here in the thread to offer help. I honestly wasn’t sure what to expect when I posted, and seeing people willing to support a small project means a lot to me. I’m talking with each of you to get things set up. Really appreciate you giving it a chance
> @nikio said:
The VPSs only run the diagnostic agent. It receives test requests over HTTPS, runs ping, TCP checks or MTR, and sends back the results.
Ok brothers
Global ping, take notes. Your agent is fat.
AI trash version of what has been at the top and google for free for last 2 decades.
He is saying you wasted your time, proven by the fact here you need to beg for VPS, and there isn't a single but multiple established tools that desimate what your even trying to achieve for "1 of 100" tools that no one will care about
Both should learn from https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/ripe-atlas-software-probe which uses 8.35 MB RSS on my OpenWRT box
I wish RIPE allowed people to contribute without being RIPE members, since they are demanding a phone number for verification simply to sign up. I'd be happy to contribute otherwise.
I never had to disclose my phone number, email only sign up worked for me.
same
I also tried to create a global ping tool website, the link is https://lg.xunmoon.com, and the production is quite mediocre