Hi.
I currently have a dedicated server with rackspace and from what I can tell it is not pushing data as quick as it used to.

What are some things that I can do to test for throughput etc from the server end? I ran a wget from my dedicated box, and a wget from a shared account i have and the one on the shared account was ALOT faster.

Any diagnostics that you could inform me of would help out alot. Also what to look for from these tests? Whats considered good and whats bad? What should I expect from a server on the rackspace network?

Thanks

You should put a file on the server you're testing and see how the download speed is from it, to another system. What the server can put out, is usually more important than the speed it can pull in. Whereas it might only download a file at ~500 kbps, it might output 5 or 10 Mbps.

Do you know of a way to generate a huge file on the server? If I had something in php or perl I could probally generate a 100MB file or so and have some people test it. I just have no way to place one that big on the server

Thanks