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08-31-2011, 06:10 AM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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What to test before buying a VPS
I know that I can't test anything on a VPS which I don't own other than pinging it to see my latency or downloading a test file ... right?
But how can I test their connection / network speed if I only have a 1 MB connection on my home internet
I also own a VPS which has CentOS installed on it, can I use the wget command to download and test file from this new host? If so what's the exact command used to get detailed download speed if I don't want to store the file on my server.
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08-31-2011, 06:38 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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Ask the hosting provider that you will choose, they will tell you which IP you can ping for a test and file to download for a speed test.
And yes, you can use wget. The command will be something as: wget http://url-to-the-file.com/some-file.com
ask them, thy will also tell you which command to use exactly.█LVPSHosting.com|Virtual Private Servers|Dedicated Servers|
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08-31-2011, 07:22 AM #3Junior Guru
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If they provide trial, you could do some basic test with:
Network speed test:
Code:wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Code:dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -f test
Code:wget http://www.primatelabs.ca/download/Geekbench21-Linux.tar.gz tar xf Geekbench21-Linux.tar.gz ./dist/Geekbench21-Linux/geekbench_x86_32
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08-31-2011, 07:46 AM #4Junior Guru Wannabe
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Well I have a 64 Bits CentOS so what would be the commands for Geekbench for the 64 Bits version?
Also wget http://url-to-the-file.com/some-file.com saves the file on my VPS which I don't want it to. I remember there was a wget or curl command with which it just downloads the file but doesn't save it on the server. Anyone know about that?
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08-31-2011, 07:52 AM #5Web Hosting Evangelist
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Run the 32bit Geekbench even you have 64bit.
(They charge a fee for the 64bit version)
Wget without saving file locally:
wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null
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