Hi,

I have a question for the people that live in the US,
can somebody 'ping' the next hosts for me and give me the results please (and your exact location):
- www.easyhosting.nl
- www.kpn.be
- www.hostrocket.com
- www.cyberpixels.com

If I ping them I get this results (in Belgium with a cable connection):
- www.easyhosting.nl : 20, 20, 170, 80
- www.kpn.be : 20, 20, 110, 30
- www.hostrocket.com : 321, 100, 100, 160
- www.cyberpixels.com : 281, 200, 281, 200

I know that kpn.be (maybe easyhosting.nl) should be the best host for me or the visitors in Belgium but it's a expensive host, and hostrocket / cyberpixels are cheap hosts with a good reputation but is the speed good enough for me or are the too slow for using in Belgium (or Europe)?

And another question, what are good ping results? Are only the hosts with a ping under 100 good or is 200 still a good result?
Or is it something like: 0-50: very fast ; 50-100: fast ; 100-150: normal ; 150-higher: slow...?


Thx in advance,
niles!

Unless you want to host a game server, the pings are not really very important. What's more important in terms of web site hosting is the actual download speed you get from the server.

It's not for a game-server but I thougth (heard) a low ping was always good for the speed of site.

And is the download speed from a American host for me in Belgium much lower or is there almost no diffrence?
Can you also give me advise, is a server in your country always the best choise or ...?

Greetz,
niles!

All of these are from Brentwood, CA


Pinging easyhosting.nl [80.84.228.143] with 32 bytes of d

Reply from 80.84.228.143: bytes=32 time=190ms TTL=237
Reply from 80.84.228.143: bytes=32 time=190ms TTL=237
Reply from 80.84.228.143: bytes=32 time=200ms TTL=237
Reply from 80.84.228.143: bytes=32 time=190ms TTL=237

Ping statistics for 80.84.228.143:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 190ms, Maximum = 200ms, Average = 192ms

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KPN.be

Pinging www.is.KPNBelgium.be [194.119.228.40] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 194.119.228.40: bytes=32 time=180ms TTL=111
Reply from 194.119.228.40: bytes=32 time=180ms TTL=111
Reply from 194.119.228.40: bytes=32 time=180ms TTL=111
Reply from 194.119.228.40: bytes=32 time=181ms TTL=111

Ping statistics for 194.119.228.40:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 180ms, Maximum = 181ms, Average = 180ms
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Pinging www.hostrocket.com [66.162.73.10] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 66.162.73.10: bytes=32 time=120ms TTL=239
Reply from 66.162.73.10: bytes=32 time=201ms TTL=239
Reply from 66.162.73.10: bytes=32 time=180ms TTL=239
Reply from 66.162.73.10: bytes=32 time=120ms TTL=239

Ping statistics for 66.162.73.10:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 120ms, Maximum = 201ms, Average = 155ms

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Pinging cyberpixels.com [209.51.139.54] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 209.51.139.54: bytes=32 time=121ms TTL=238
Reply from 209.51.139.54: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=238
Reply from 209.51.139.54: bytes=32 time=111ms TTL=238
Reply from 209.51.139.54: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=238

Ping statistics for 209.51.139.54:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 100ms, Maximum = 121ms, Average = 110ms




LOL. These ping results are very similar, I would take either HostRocket or CyberPixels.

Now I'm almost sure that I gonna choose for Hostrocket, this because they have a good reputation, no high prices, fast, ...

Thx for your ping results ;)

niles!

The best place to ping is from the ATT Route Server (CERFnet)
at:


telnet://route-server.cerf.net

Download speeds are much more important than ping results.

If you want to know how fast a host is, NetMechanic provides a free service that will download a notional 10K file over 8 hours or so then email you the results.

Find out a website hosted by the web host and test that (some hosts put their own site on a dedicated server, so better to test for one of the host's clients).

The results give you a comparisson with average speeds and percentile results.

Example results:

NetMechanic Report For: www.spherious.com
Date: Tue 14 May
Time: 1:00 - 9:00 USA Eastern Time
Server Type: Apache/1.3.19

Overall Rating: Very Good

Performance Summary
Event Your Server's Average NetMechanic Average
Host Ping
43.53 millisec 609.51 millisec
DNS Look Up
0.01 sec 0.56 sec
Connect Time
0.05 sec 1.29 sec
Download Time (10k file)
0.12 sec 1.60 sec
Timeouts
0 -

(Better than 70% of servers tested)

Here is a link to the free test:
http://www.netmechanic.com/server_check/site_monitoring.htm

Does anyone know any other good speed check sites that do not just do pings?

Cheers,

James Kruss.

niles!,

You can do network tests from various servers at:
http://network-tools.com

Just had to add that ping results are not indicative of speed and that the results that you get won't be the same results that other people will get.