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So You Start - Network Performance
daxterfellowes
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Can anyone comment on SoYouStart's network in Canada? I can't seem to find any IP's to test. Any currently have service with them (in the Canada DC)?
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Try this: http://bhs.proof.ovh.net/
I believe It's OVH so the network is reasonable,
On a recent server (these outbound tests from the OVH server):
How do you perform these tests?
Their service has been great for me! The DDOS protection is fantastic as well.
Recently configured a SYS server in Canada for a friend (not the aFriend in this thread!). We had some special requirements and the server didn't end up working for what we needed it for (bought it as a test), but the hardware and network performance was good. RAID0 configuration on the hardware controller required using lsiutil from the OVH rescue system. We couldn't configure it properly through the manager.
I have another since-discontinued OVH server in Canada and the network performance on it is fine as well. I am running some game servers and miscellaneous services on it.
The only time I can remember any major network issues is when they had fiber cuts (two or three times in the same place I think, lol)
@aFriend: mind sharing the test script?
first part of the script is based on something I found on github. (dont know where). The speedtest requires python to be installed.
Sorry its hard to post a script here with plethora of quote marks.
!/bin/bash
echo "
#
Download tests. Warning: downloads approx 100MB per site. Total approx 1.8GB
#
"
function download_benchmark() {
echo "Benchmarking download from $1 ($2)"
DOWNLOAD_SPEED=
wget -O /dev/null $2 2>&1 | awk '/\/dev\/null/ {speed=$3 $4} END {gsub(/\(|\)/,"",speed); print speed}'echo "Got $DOWNLOAD_SPEED : $1 ($2)"
}
echo "Running bandwidth benchmark..."
download_benchmark 'CDN77 Chicago, US ' 'http://793343545.r.cdn77.net/design/swf/testfile100.bin'
download_benchmark 'Cachefly ' 'http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test'
download_benchmark 'OVH, Montreal, Canada ' 'http://proof.ovh.ca/files/100Mio.dat'
download_benchmark 'Linode, Atlanta, GA, USA ' 'http://speedtest.atlanta.linode.com/100MB-atlanta.bin'
download_benchmark 'Linode, Dallas, TX, USA ' 'http://speedtest.dallas.linode.com/100MB-dallas.bin'
download_benchmark 'Softlayer, Seattle, WA, USA' 'http://speedtest.sea01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip'
download_benchmark 'Softlayer, S Jose,CA, USA ' 'http://speedtest.sjc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip'
download_benchmark 'Softlayer, Wash, DC, USA ' 'http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip'
download_benchmark 'Leaseweb, Manassas, VA, USA' 'http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/speedtest/100mb.bin'
download_benchmark 'Linode, Tokyo, JP ' 'http://speedtest.tokyo.linode.com/100MB-tokyo.bin'
download_benchmark 'OVH, Paris, France ' 'http://proof.ovh.net/files/100Mio.dat'
download_benchmark 'Linode, London, UK ' 'http://speedtest.london.linode.com/100MB-london.bin'
download_benchmark 'SmartDC, Rotterdam, NL ' 'http://mirror.i3d.net/100mb.bin'
download_benchmark 'Hetzner, Nuernberg, DE ' 'http://hetzner.de/100MB.iso'
download_benchmark 'iiNet, Perth, WA, AUS ' 'http://ftp.iinet.net.au/test100MB.dat'
download_benchmark 'MammothVPS, Sydney, AUS ' 'http://www.mammothvpscustomer.com/test100MB.dat'
download_benchmark 'Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL ' 'http://mirror.nl.leaseweb.net/speedtest/100mb.bin'
download_benchmark 'Softlayer, Singapore ' 'http://speedtest.sng01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip'
`
echo "Downloading and running speedtest.net CLI"
wget --quiet --no-check-certificate https://raw.github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest_cli.py
python speedtest_cli.py
rm speedtest_cli.py
echo "Running traceroute..."
echo "Traceroute (cachefly.cachefly.net):
traceroute cachefly.cachefly.net 2>&1"echo "Running ping benchmark..."
echo "Pings (cachefly.cachefly.net):
ping -c 10 cachefly.cachefly.net 2>&1"`
Damn Ovh.. I signed up for a test VPS and the ip was so good that I need to renew it for a year... why Why give me such a nice memorable ip. enough Vps for today I paid 28 Euro for something I will not use other than testing for a whole year... FFFFFF...
Selecting best server based on ping... Hosted by FreeMobile (Paris) [1.59 km]: 9.696 ms Testing download speed........................................ Download: 98.62 Mbits/s Testing upload speed.................................................. Upload: 98.45 Mbits/sIt'll not work after copy. Why not upload to pastebin or github gist?
Nicely formated and tested:
https://gist.github.com/Silvenga/00241a42c912c7d9d990
Make sure that Python and Traceroute are installed. Python is default in Ubuntu, Traceroute is not.
apt-get install traceroute pythonNow on pastebin too. Sorry hadnt used pastebin before..
http://pastebin.com/piRvTcFQ But I think Silvenga already uploaded a version - didnt check it out.
It would be good for someone to keep updating it to make it better for LET community use.
Added it to my Git Repository: (https://github.com/Silvenga/LinuxScripts/blob/master/lowendtalk/speedtest.sh).
Anyone is free to make push requests and I will care for the script.