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What speed do you expect/find reasonable from a 100Mbit shared LEB when running a wget cachefly?
Like the title says: What speed do you expect/find reasonable from a 100Mbit shared LEB when running a wget cachefly?
Currently I have a VPS with Adeska in Germany which is on 100Mbit shared and get between 3.5MB/s and 4.5MB/s when running a speedtest from cachefly.
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8 mb/s that's what i want
Here is a test from Misterhost.de
Why would you test that? I don't see any sense to test download speed with cachefly lately - cf can simply be far from your. Try 3-4 sources, like OVH test file, hetzner test file (to check what can be the speed), http://www.thinkbroadband.com/download/, your local mirror of some linux distro.
The speed with 100 Mb/s should be ~11.8 MB/s.
That's very nice!
Here's a test from Adeska.de. Not very impressive, is it?
@breton
To make it easier to compare VPSes. If everyone uses a different source, it's hard to compare. Gotta keep 1 variable constant
100Mbps is indeed ~11.8MB/s, but since it's a shared 100Mbit, you can't really expect the full thing, can you?
Here's Hetzner's 100MB iso:
Here's thinkbroadband's 100MB zip:
Not impressed. Going open a ticket.
@freek better go to misterhost.de...
@joodle Misterhost.de is looking good yes. Awaiting their answer. Still have 24 hours left on my trial. Let's see.
Oh, of course the speed will be low. "Unbegrentzt" bw for 1.69Euro/month.
@breton 'Unbregrentzt' capped at 4.88TB/month. If you want more, open a ticket.
Still, 200MB RAM and have been 10 years in the industry. Will use it for Mumble voice server(s), which don't use that much bandwidth anyway.
Misterhost, capped at 2TB a month, 128MB ram, < 1 year in the industry but very nice speeds looking from joodle's post.
I contacted them about the speed issue. Here's their answer (translated from German):
4 Mb per second is is equal to 32Mbit. I think it's pretty good for a server it's size.
They mean bytes.
They say that speed of 32 Mbit/s is quite good for low-price vps. I tend to agree with them.
My results are all over the place. I just tested my Hostigation LA site, which blazed at 73.8M/s, while 123Systems in Texas poked along at 3.6M/s. And I use the sites accordingly. The Hostigation site automatically backs up other VPSes and turns big log files into mySQL databases for remote querying. 123Systems is my munin server - all I ask of it are a few web pages tracking my VPSes' performance.
I like at least 10M/s to feel like something is getting done.
cachefly instances are not distributed equally around the globe. In some places you may be talking to a server which is a few miles away from your VPS (or even in the same DC), in other cases the cachefly server can be thousands of kilometers away.
@brenton Ouch, yes I believe you're right. My bad. Shouldn't have read it that fast, but I had to go. My sincere apologies, how stupid of me.
Send your wget to /dev/null to avoid skewed download speeds caused by poor disk performance.
Another variable eliminated
australian mirror
--2012-01-06 02:17:38-- http://mirror.eftel.com/ubuntu-dvd/11.10/release/ubuntu-11.10-dvd-i386.iso
Resolving mirror.eftel.com... 203.123.69.179
Connecting to mirror.eftel.com|203.123.69.179|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1584803840 (1.5G) [application/x-iso9660-image]
Saving to: /dev/null'
17% [=====> ] 282,179,864 4.75M/s eta 4m 40s
EU Mirror
--2012-01-06 02:18:52-- http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/ubuntu-cdimage/releases/8.04/release/ubuntu-8.04.1-dvd-amd64.iso
Resolving ftp.heanet.ie... 193.1.193.64, 2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140
Connecting to ftp.heanet.ie|193.1.193.64|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4022972416 (3.7G) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: /dev/null'
6% [=> ] 276,965,208 11.6M/s eta 5m 28s
US Mirror
--2012-01-06 02:19:54-- http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/DVDs/ubuntu/11.10/ release/ubuntu-11.10-alternate-amd64+mac.iso
Resolving mirror.anl.gov... 146.137.96.15, 146.137.96.7, 2620:0:dc0:1800:214:4ff f:fe7d:1b9
Connecting to mirror.anl.gov|146.137.96.15|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 705998848 (673M) [application/x-iso9660-image]
Saving to: /dev/null'
28% [==========> ] 201,509,720 9.45M/s eta 58s
Cachefly
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 209715200 (200M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: /dev/null'
100%[===================================>] 209,715,200 42.8M/s in 4.7s
2012-01-06 02:20:50 (42.6 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [209715200/209715200]
For a $14/year vps (Alienlayer), I think it's pretty reasonable.
Note - Cannot guarantee that 10MBps (approx) in EU and US are because of uplink limit of the ubuntu mirror. I cancelled the download as soon as the download speed looked stable.
However this seems depressing...
--2012-01-06 02:32:31-- http://hetzner.de/100MB.iso
Resolving hetzner.de... 213.133.107.227
Connecting to hetzner.de|213.133.107.227|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.hetzner.de/100MB.iso [following]
--2012-01-06 02:32:31-- http://www.hetzner.de/100MB.iso
Resolving www.hetzner.de... 213.133.107.227
Reusing existing connection to hetzner.de:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104840234 (100M) [application/x-iso9660-image]
Saving to: /dev/null'
33% [======================================> ] 35,452,904 1.01M/s eta 74s
Thinkbroadband
--2012-01-06 02:33:18-- http://download.thinkbroadband.com/100MB.zip
Resolving download.thinkbroadband.com... 80.249.99.148
Connecting to download.thinkbroadband.com|80.249.99.148|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/zip]
Saving to: /dev/null'
100%[==============================================================================================>] 104,857,600 1.18M/s in 57s
2012-01-06 02:34:16 (1.75 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
It's shared. Other VPSs may have been hammering away when you did those tests. You'll never know unless you keep repeating it. But then you're only contributing to the problem.
For a cheap LEB, if it works be happy
If you need big bandwidth then pay for it.
You know that's probably true but I keep seeing the same IP address (205.234.175.175) in all these tests.
Correct: its an anycast address.
Traceroute it from random locations for yourself ...
Nah, just curious. I;m just used to seeing round robin DNS and similar methods.
Well, this might not fit right to this topic but I would like to share this. This test was done from my home server on my Road Runner 10mbp/s connection.
jeffrey@Shark:~$ wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2012-01-05 17:09:52-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: â/dev/nullâ
100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 679K/s in 4m 8s
2012-01-05 17:14:05 (413 KB/s) - â/dev/nullâ
Once again, cachefly is a CDN and they employ routing / dns tricks to get you to the closest "mirror" to you. Even though it may dns to the same ip, if you try tracerouting that same ip from different locations you will find that it takes different routes based one where you are. Some example of this can be found in a previous post I made on the same subject:
I tried to pass on this information before, but the post was probably overlooked:
The above link also lists a bunch of different speed test sites I have collected over time.
Hopefully this helps.
more download test
http://pastebin.com/gVXqck4k
it's on alienayer 15$ year VPS