Hi,

I have been reading some good comments about the NAC datacenter, and what interested me the most was the fact that they are connected to a London backbone, giving higher speeds to Europe.
SO is NAC the best atacenter available (not considering the very expensive Exodus one) for Europeans?

Jacco

I've seen very good speed to Europe from Globalcompass in Atlanta too. They're only one short hop away from a transatlantic line I believe. Ping from the Netherlands to my server there is about 93 ms.

Originally posted by Tazzman
I've seen very good speed to Europe from Globalcompass in Atlanta too. They're only one short hop away from a transatlantic line I believe. Ping from the Netherlands to my server there is about 93 ms.

Wow that's low, considering the fact that on quiet times in the Netherlands (mostly at night when I actually should sleep :D) a ping to a really good connected (and therefore very expensive server) server got me about 20-40 ms.

Jacco

yep, NAC is a very good alternative for european hosting clients .... though there are also others with good speed/ping times on the east-coast.

greets,

40 ms from the Netherland to the USA (happy now I corrected it? ;) )? Very impressive. Transatlantic pings are usually between 100 and 200 ms...

90 ms would be good enough to run a gameserver on it though.

Just pinged NAC from the same server I pinged Globalcompass. The pings are nearly identical (though the NAC ping is just a measily 3 ms faster, 97 ms vs 94 ms). Both beat the far more costly rackspace hands down though, which comes in at 125 ms, but that's probably because the ping went to their Houston datacenter :)

I'd still like to know the name of this 40 ms transatlantic ping company...

Best geographical place for a transatlantic server would probably be Washington, as that's where the pipe enter the US.

NAC peers directly with LINX which is certainly an advantage for European based internet users.

i have VERY good times on my east coast sprint lines (90 - 110 during day) and i do ok to my chicago cogent (130 - 150) from vienna, austria.

nac is good for me also as is east coast yipes.

Originally posted by Tazzman
40 ms from the Netherland to Europe? Very impressive. Transatlantic pings are usually between 100 and 200 ms...

:)
Actually the Netherlands are in Europe...

We have 3 servers in NAC and get comments from our clients in Europe that the speeds are great. NAC = :agree:

Originally posted by Walter


:)
Actually the Netherlands are in Europe...

:D

Originally posted by Walter


:)
Actually the Netherlands are in Europe...

Yes, there are several Nether Lands located in Europe, each having it's own rack in the Europe DataCenter. It is possible that you get higher pings from lower level-of-technology Nether Lands (We call them Friesen and Limlammers).

Just kidding :D It just sounds stupid that it is pronounced "The Netherlands ARE" while it is still one country (That is becasue the Netherlands used to be seperated *boring*). But you're right, we are in Europe and Europe is proud of us (although they don't want anyone to one that :D)

Jacco

Anyone know what companies with dedicated servers are at these NAC and Globalcompass dc's?

I got my Globalcompass server through serverhost.com, though I'd contact Jeffrey Kehe directly (he hangs out on these boards) for a quote as the pricing listed on their site is on the expensive side...

they (serverhost) are running a special which is listed in the special offer forum ... should take a look there.

greets,

You mean what companies sell ded's out of NAC?

Originally posted by JDMundo
Anyone know what companies with dedicated servers are at these NAC and Globalcompass dc's?

Originally posted by jayglate
You mean what companies sell ded's out of NAC?



Yeah, exactly.

We do and so does site5.