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Linode open Singapore location!
Linode have opened their Singapore location in Asia!
https://blog.linode.com/2015/04/27/hello-singapore/
We’ve spent the majority of the past few months working on getting great connectivity to the Internet. Our Singapore network is powered by Cisco ASR 9000-series routers, and currently blends transit from Telstra/Pacnet and PCCW, along with direct peering into the Equinix Internet Exchange (EIE) – providing us with access to hundreds of peering opportunities. Check out our Speedtest page to test latency and download speeds.
Singapore supports all of the standard Linode features available in all of our datacenters – like 40 Gbit/sec redundant connectivity to each hypervisor host machine, the Linode Backup service, NodeBalancers, native IPv6, etc – and is the same simple pricing as our other datacenters.
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz Number of cores : 1 CPU frequency : 2800.102 MHz Total amount of ram : 989 MB Total amount of swap : 255 MB System uptime : 2 min, Download speed from CacheFly: 14.4MB/s Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 1.15MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 168KB/s Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 25.3MB/s Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 2.03MB/s Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 4.19MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 81.0MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 7.47MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 9.89MB/s Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 177KB/s I/O speed : 980 MB/s
Comments
Premium
China -> US -> SG
the route is too bad
How compared with dediserve singapore?
I feel very disappointed about the route to China on Singapore Node.
Many Chinese users believes that the linode will use the PCCW route.
It does - The normal PCCW route (via LAX), not premium direct China (which is simply not possible even within Linods pricing when 1Mbit costs 60$+)
You complain on a very high level here...
We can provide direct China premium transit in Singapore (and soon Hong Kong) but as @William stated, it's a $50 per Mbps premium option
The Japan node don't have any vps to order now due to the large amount of the Chinese users. So many users guess linode in Singapore Node is another strategy for the linode to ease the shortage on the Japan Node.
Some people even I guess the Linode will use the PCCW premium direct root to China, but the flow is less than the other Node. Also, a little more expensive than the other node is universally accepted.
But the fact is disappointing.
Linode needs to get their other shit together before trying to launch a Singapore node though... They used to be the paragon of VPS hosting, but now their support is giving robotic replies and I'm starting to see more and more bad reviews about them. (Before, you couldn't find one if you tried)
Why Chinese users always unsatisfied with local region routing? Always suggest take 100Mbps unmetered from north for much less than slow Asian region offers
Some special reasons, you know.
Quality (IPv4, IPv6 is not much congested) to CNC and CNT sucks from anywhere unless you pay Premium Premium (yes, dual premium, one premium for direct routing and another premium for less congestion) "peering" in HK - Especially on evenings and in the morning.
CM on the other hand is fairly good peered on HKIX, though this links (according to HKIX "only" a single 40GE interface (sounds much but at 100million+ customers it isn't...)) get loaded at some times as well.
Only way to "guarantee" at least SOME speed to Chinese users is hosting inside China where congestion is not really an issue anymore (all 3 carriers run now Nx100GE+ between the major cities, from Shanghai up to even Ürümqi).
Only way to really guarantee 100% non congested BW is to host with CM, CNC or CNT directly, best case in the same cities your users are at. (Before "Dual Homing" became a thing in Chinese DCs many sites (mainly with the change of CNNIC to allow own ASNs inside China) used servers at both or even all 3 ISPs and decided by DNS which IP to deliver)
This is really premium. Good network to all asia, excellent io speed.
[From Indonesia] Slightly better than dediserve network, only about 7ms difference. Looking forward to Singapore LowEndSpirit-style VPS.
Good to see some more VPS providers coming to Asia Pacific!
From Australia DigitalOcean has much better latency to Singapore though:
Lineode:
3 10.25.0.185 (10.25.0.185) 0.866 ms 0.889 ms 0.973 ms 4 syd-hostingedge-b-xe-0-3-0.intellicentre.net.au (125.7.35.137) 0.959 ms 0.965 ms 0.961 ms 5 Ten-Gig-0-2-0-syd-bdr-a.intellicentre.net.au (203.110.136.33) 1.086 ms 1.090 ms 1.087 ms 6 161.43.65.41 (161.43.65.41) 1.082 ms 0.614 ms 0.552 ms 7 * * * 8 * * * 9 * * * 10 * * * 11 59.154.18.10 (59.154.18.10) 3.191 ms 3.268 ms 3.207 ms 12 203.208.131.125 (203.208.131.125) 143.152 ms 143.178 ms 143.008 ms 13 203.208.183.14 (203.208.183.14) 143.779 ms 194.863 ms 194.853 ms 14 203.208.152.193 (203.208.152.193) 177.230 ms 203.208.151.249 (203.208.151.249) 144.497 ms 203.208.166.242 (203.208.166.242) 179.519 ms 15 203.208.166.230 (203.208.166.230) 176.987 ms 203.208.178.1 (203.208.178.1) 176.031 ms 203.208.152.138 (203.208.152.138) 176.585 ms 16 203.208.158.74 (203.208.158.74) 242.032 ms 244.196 ms 268.524 ms 17 xe-0-1-1.gw1.sin2.pacnet.net (202.147.52.64) 262.923 ms 203.208.178.5 (203.208.178.5) 177.912 ms xe-0-1-1.gw1.sin2.pacnet.net (202.147.52.64) 285.656 ms 18 gw2.sin1.sg.linode.com (61.14.147.179) 154.672 ms xe-0-1-1.gw1.sin2.pacnet.net (202.147.52.64) 262.062 ms gw2.sin1.sg.linode.com (61.14.147.179) 156.408 ms 19 xe-0-1-1.gw1.sin2.pacnet.net (202.147.52.64) 264.107 ms 261.474 ms 261.529 ms 20 gw2.sin1.sg.linode.com (61.14.147.179) 154.902 ms speedtest.singapore.linode.com (139.162.23.4) 155.327 ms li842-6.members.linode.com (139.162.0.6) 157.798 ms
DigitalOcean:
3 10.25.0.185 (10.25.0.185) 0.779 ms 0.783 ms 0.780 ms 4 syd-hostingedge-b-xe-0-3-0.intellicentre.net.au (125.7.35.137) 0.776 ms 0.792 ms 0.789 ms 5 * * * 6 po41.sclarbrdr11.aapt.net.au (202.10.14.200) 1.693 ms 1.585 ms 1.542 ms 7 Bundle-Ether13.ken-edge902.sydney.telstra.net (139.130.214.101) 1.905 ms 1.895 ms 1.964 ms 8 bundle-ether14.ken-core10.sydney.telstra.net (203.50.11.96) 3.156 ms 3.166 ms 3.160 ms 9 bundle-ether12.win-core10.melbourne.telstra.net (203.50.11.123) 14.474 ms 15.685 ms 15.633 ms 10 bundle-ether6.fli-core1.adelaide.telstra.net (203.50.11.90) 25.848 ms 25.847 ms 25.836 ms 11 bundle-ether5.wel-core3.perth.telstra.net (203.50.11.19) 57.198 ms 57.196 ms 57.187 ms 12 203.50.9.6 (203.50.9.6) 227.253 ms 226.429 ms 226.434 ms 13 i-0-0-1-0.istt-core02.bx.telstraglobal.net (202.84.141.158) 160.065 ms 160.564 ms 158.512 ms 14 202.84.180.158 (202.84.180.158) 159.304 ms 158.650 ms 158.643 ms 15 unknown.telstraglobal.net (202.127.73.138) 103.469 ms 103.969 ms 103.949 ms 16 103.253.144.234 (103.253.144.234) 102.993 ms 103.125 ms 102.906 ms 17 128.199.236.18 (128.199.236.18) 104.431 ms 104.240 ms 104.243 ms
50ms better.
Looks like DO are going via the faster link off Perth, while Linode are going via Japan or HK
nice. more and more Asia provider
From China Unicom to Linode SG now changed to
China -> Korea -> Hongkong -> SG
Still mediocre from Europe and Russia compared to DO SG.
DO: