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[Setheus]

or website?

[kidfive5]

http://www.webhostdir.com/toolkit/comparehosts.asp

[coight]

I would not only use that as an indication of speed, the results will favour hosts that are closer to where the datacentre for the server is. You could be getting 5-10ms ping replies however the host may have placed 500 sites on one server causing a massive slowdown.

Best place to go is a hosts forum and get some urls test the speed.

Although I might use those results

[NationHosts]

I don't think that's the best way to tell the speed of a host as some hosts can have several servers.

[sprintserve]

Can the poster define "speed" ?

[idologicJeff]

Originally posted by kidfive5
http://www.webhostdir.com/toolkit/comparehosts.asp

This only tells you about the network between webhostdir.com and what ever hosts you plug in.

In general ping speeds are network specific, which unfortunately isn't a great indication.

i. There may be a slow link between the source ping and destination machine.
ii. Most (good) webhosting machines have more than 1 network connection, therefore you're only measuring one network.

I know this isn't terribly helpful, but I don't want you accept the gospel according to ping either.

Cheers
Jeff

[Setheus]

I want to compare the speed of my host to my other hosts. How do you go about doing that?

[Douglas]

Originally posted by kidfive5
http://www.webhostdir.com/toolkit/comparehosts.asp

Some hosts, like me and my uplink, stop pings and tracerts at the gateway to cut down on DDoS and DoS attacks. That's not a good test to run, IMHO.

[Setheus]

then how guys?

[VNPIXEL]

Originally posted by Setheus
I want to compare the speed of my host to my other hosts. How do you go about doing that?

Do a ping on your host and other host then compare.

[ENH Jonathan]

Sethus, get them to put a download test file on the server they plan on putting you on. Download it and you'll have your answer right there.

[VNPIXEL]

Originally posted by Myacen
I would not only use that as an indication of speed, the results will favour hosts that are closer to where the datacentre for the server is. You could be getting 5-10ms ping replies however the host may have placed 500 sites on one server causing a massive slowdown.

Best place to go is a hosts forum and get some urls test the speed.

Although I might use those results

yup. last time i got excused for ads when i posted this result. The tool is not working.

[snickn]

Just to put it into perspective..

I did a test with :

www.lunarpages.com (great connection, california)
www.google.com (obviously good connectivity, multiple datacenters over US)
nuub.valdosta.edu (my house, valdosta, ga)
arpa.com (servercentral.net, equinix chicago)

First place...<drumroll please>....my house. Ok, you know, I have my doubts that if I provide webhosting out of my house it'll be faster than the 3 above GOOD datacenters.

Second place..arpa.com (correct I'm sure, servercentral.net is 3 hops from 12 different GigE backbones i believe still)

Either way, my guess would be that this server is definately on the east coast, probably mid to southeast.

Just shows you how misleading the results could be.

cheers,
nick

[ntwaddel]

some hosts have icmp disabled, then how do you test the speed?

[fshost]

Mine timed out, so yes, it would be an unfair comparison.