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  1. #1
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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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    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.
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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
    Disk IO test:
    Code:
    dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -f test
    Geekbench (CPU test):
    Code:
    wget http://www.primatelabs.ca/download/Geekbench21-Linux.tar.gz
    tar xf Geekbench21-Linux.tar.gz
    ./dist/Geekbench21-Linux/geekbench_x86_32
    If not, I think you could only test their network by ping, tracert and wget from your current VPS

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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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    Quote Originally Posted by hybridized View Post
    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?
    Run the 32bit Geekbench even you have 64bit.
    (They charge a fee for the 64bit version)

    Wget without saving file locally:
    Wget and deleting file right after download:
    wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test && rm -f 100mb.test
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