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07-25-2002, 10:02 AM #1Junior Guru
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Best Ping Speeds for Australians
I have reseller accounts on servers at Burst and DV2 and while Burst is ****e and DV2 is stable, both are slow...with DV2 around 50ms slower on average.
Im wondering if any Aussies can recommend anyone that does good DED packages with better speeds, and good to perfect uptime at a good or great price??? Im looking for packages with WHM/Cpanel or similar that i can use for reseller accounts.
Im based in Country Victoria and my clients are all over the place.
Is there any datacentres in the US that can get better than 250ms???
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07-25-2002, 10:16 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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perfect uptime
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07-25-2002, 10:28 AM #4Junior Guru
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http://fastservers.net (he.net) has great connectivity to asia/au...
edit -> There is also http://www.maxim.net (Hostcentric.com) They aslo have good connectivity from asia/au...Last edited by citrus; 07-25-2002 at 04:43 PM.
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07-25-2002, 11:33 AM #5Eternal Member
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We get good speeds and solid performance out of Rackshack Steve. None of the others we're using are performing as good at this point in time.
--- 216.40.***.** ping statistics ---
14 packets transmitted, 14 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 232.904/235.975/246.915/3.852 ms
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07-25-2002, 12:28 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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I don't necessarily think ping times are a huge factor in determining a site's speed - sure it affects the initial response, but the thruput is the main factor.
Anyway, from "descartes" here in Sydney (Optus Cable) to the server at Rackshack (hosting account purchased from Gary/Editor).
--- 216.40.xxx.xxx ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 209.161/211.463/214.818/1.865 ms
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07-25-2002, 12:41 PM #7Web Hosting Master
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Try site5.com
nac.net has excellent connectivity..
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07-25-2002, 02:34 PM #8New Member
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We have several Australian customers, they seem quite pleased. We're right next to MAE EAST, I'd be curious how our ping times compare with some of the others you check out. Ping to our server or some of our busy customers www.soloserver.com, www.wjla.com, www.marchofdimes.com.
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07-25-2002, 02:42 PM #9Eternal Member
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Not quite as good a response as we get down here from our Rackshack boxes mate:
PING www.soloserver.com (216.250.224.10) from 210.15.200.138 : 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from admin.irides.com (216.250.224.10): icmp_seq=0 ttl=234 time=286.555 msec
64 bytes from admin.irides.com (216.250.224.10): icmp_seq=1 ttl=234 time=290.668 msec
64 bytes from admin.irides.com (216.250.224.10): icmp_seq=2 ttl=234 time=292.738 msec
64 bytes from admin.irides.com (216.250.224.10): icmp_seq=4 ttl=234 time=336.545 msec
64 bytes from admin.irides.com (216.250.224.10): icmp_seq=5 ttl=234 time=292.218 msec
64 bytes from admin.irides.com (216.250.224.10): icmp_seq=6 ttl=234 time=283.592 msec
64 bytes from admin.irides.com (216.250.224.10): icmp_seq=7 ttl=234 time=301.158 msec
64 bytes from admin.irides.com (216.250.224.10): icmp_seq=8 ttl=234 time=311.790 msec
64 bytes from admin.irides.com (216.250.224.10): icmp_seq=9 ttl=234 time=322.195 msec
64 bytes from admin.irides.com (216.250.224.10): icmp_seq=10 ttl=234 time=325.064 msec
64 bytes from admin.irides.com (216.250.224.10): icmp_seq=11 ttl=234 time=310.570 msec
--- www.soloserver.com ping statistics ---
13 packets transmitted, 12 packets received, 7% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 283.592/306.081/336.545/16.610 ms
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07-25-2002, 03:37 PM #10Web Hosting Evangelist
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I use DV2 and maybe your pings may not be supa fast like you're wanting (because of the distance and hops) but I can get constant 1.5MB downloads to the server and off the server even at peak times, so I think they are pretty good value for money.
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07-25-2002, 07:12 PM #11Web Hosting Master
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I use DV2 and maybe your pings may not be supa fast like you're wanting (because of the distance and hops) but I can get constant 1.5MB downloads to the server and off the server even at peak times, so I think they are pretty good value for money.
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07-25-2002, 08:31 PM #12Junior Guru
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Thanks for the info everyone....
Gary, ive heard all sorts of rumors about rackshack being bad and having and causing all sorts of problems...i take it from your experience this isnt the case. Plus 235ms avg looks good...certainly a lot better than DV2.
I had a look at rackspace as well and they looked ok but i dont really know anything about them, or many of the others listed here....
I also looked at NAC and everyone ive talked to seemed to be happy about them as well.
My biggest concern is a couple of portal sites that get well over 100,000 hits per month, a lot of this via YaBBSE based forums. I have a lot of customers and users on 56k who complain that the sites load too slowly...especially the forums (hence thats why im looking for what will give the fastest responses times without comprimising uptime etc...)
I guess im a bit more educated now.
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07-25-2002, 09:03 PM #13Eternal Member
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I'm getting 270-280 from NAC right now, and around 240 from rackspace is normal. Obviously these are just one off ping checks and really wouldn't be a true indication of sustained performance. We've had in excess of 120 days uptime out of Rackshack (prior to a round of hard drive upgrades) and cannot fault them.
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Originally posted by Snowman30
My biggest concern is a couple of portal sites that get well over 100,000 hits per month, a lot of this via YaBBSE based forums. I have a lot of customers and users on 56k who complain that the sites load too slowly...especially the forums (hence thats why im looking for what will give the fastest responses times without comprimising uptime etc...)• WLVPN.com • NetProtect owned White Label VPN provider •
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07-25-2002, 10:14 PM #15Junior Guru
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woops Gary you said rackspace not rackshack....LOL there is a big difference...
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07-25-2002, 10:58 PM #16Eternal Member
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No, I meant rackspace.
Rackspace is 24 hops and ~240 pings from Canberra.telstra.net whilst there's 19 hops and a slightly quicker ping response time to a box we have at Rackshack. I have no doubt rackspace is a fine provider, but I can only comment on what we're seeing and the uptime that we've had out of rackshack.
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07-25-2002, 10:59 PM #17Web Hosting Master
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he.net = 14 hops - 200 ms
staminus.net = 8 hops 175 ms
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07-25-2002, 11:09 PM #18Eternal Member
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he.net is usually better than this:
traceroute to he.net (216.218.186.2), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 FastEthernet6-0.civ-service1.Canberra.telstra.net (203.50.1.65) 0.425 ms 0.473 ms 0.408 ms
2 GigabitEthernet0-0-0.civ-core2.Canberra.telstra.net (203.50.10.129) 0.348 ms 0.371 ms 0.353 ms
3 GigabitEthernet4-0-0.dkn-core1.Canberra.telstra.net (203.50.6.126) 0.537 ms 0.569 ms 0.742 ms
4 Pos4-0.ken-core4.Sydney.telstra.net (203.50.6.121) 3.99 ms 4.025 ms 3.875 ms
5 Pos2-0.pad-core4.Sydney.telstra.net (203.50.6.22) 4.294 ms 3.971 ms 3.968 ms
6 GigabitEthernet0-0.syd-core01.Sydney.net.reach.com (203.50.13.242) 4.04 ms 4.076 ms 4.01 ms
7 202.84.143.21 (202.84.143.21) 191.442 ms 191.286 ms 191.362 ms
8 202.84.143.58 (202.84.143.58) 257.219 ms 257.114 ms 257.144 ms
9 202.84.143.86 (202.84.143.86) 289.446 ms 289.732 ms 289.275 ms
10 POS1-0.nyx01.NewYork.net.reach.com (202.40.148.98) 289.59 ms 289.227 ms 289.487 ms
11 nyiix.he.net (198.32.160.61) 289.533 ms 290.126 ms 289.602 ms
12 216.218.255.249 (216.218.255.249) 318.416 ms 318.581 ms 319.864 ms
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14 he.net (216.218.186.2) 263.587 ms 264.062 ms 263.841 ms
Nice results here though:
traceroute to staminus.net (65.215.220.10), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 FastEthernet6-0.civ-service1.Canberra.telstra.net (203.50.1.65) 0.533 ms 0.375 ms 0.398 ms
2 GigabitEthernet0-0-0.civ-core2.Canberra.telstra.net (203.50.10.129) 0.368 ms 0.301 ms 0.361 ms
3 GigabitEthernet4-0-0.dkn-core1.Canberra.telstra.net (203.50.6.126) 0.636 ms 0.502 ms 0.533 ms
4 Pos4-1.ken-core4.Sydney.telstra.net (203.50.6.69) 3.872 ms 3.987 ms 3.975 ms
5 Pos2-0.pad-core4.Sydney.telstra.net (203.50.6.22) 4.091 ms 4.152 ms 4.011 ms
6 GigabitEthernet0-1.syd-core01.Sydney.net.reach.com (203.50.13.246) 4.04 ms 3.994 ms 3.931 ms
7 202.84.143.5 (202.84.143.5) 191.5 ms 191.522 ms 191.545 ms
8 i-13-0.paix-core01.PaloAlto.net.reach.com (202.84.251.49) 174.997 ms 174.976 ms 174.835 ms
9 i-1-0.paix04.PaloAlto.net.reach.com (202.84.251.20) 175.093 ms 174.962 ms 174.856 ms
10 Serial2-4.GW9.PAO1.ALTER.NET (157.130.194.73) 203.62 ms 203.884 ms 203.71 ms
11 172.ATM2-0.XR1.PAO1.ALTER.NET (152.63.52.74) 181.926 ms 182.336 ms 181.992 ms
12 0.so-0-0-0.XL1.PAO1.ALTER.NET (152.63.54.73) 180.742 ms 180.394 ms 180.42 ms
13 0.so-0-0-0.TL1.SCL2.ALTER.NET (152.63.1.9) 203.482 ms 203.622 ms 203.29 ms
14 0.so-2-0-0.TL1.LAX9.ALTER.NET (152.63.0.97) 181.776 ms 181.283 ms 181.258 ms
15 0.so-1-0-0.XL1.LAX9.ALTER.NET (152.63.115.141) 183.191 ms 183.009 ms 183.224 ms
16 0.so-3-0-0.XR1.LAX9.ALTER.NET (152.63.115.157) 181.936 ms 181.755 ms 181.935 ms
17 191.ATM6-0.GW1.LAX9.ALTER.NET (152.63.113.25) 181.396 ms 181.313 ms 181.771 ms
18 Staminus-gw.customer.ALTER.NET (157.130.225.166) 204.947 ms 209.445 ms 205.53 ms
19 core01.irv.staminus.net (65.215.220.2) 204.621 ms 208.063 ms 207.617 ms
20 web1.staminus.net (65.215.220.10) 194.185 ms 189.641 ms 190.073 ms
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staminus.net
1 hsrp.syd.pacific.net.au (61.8.0.100) 0.927 ms 0.380 ms 0.688 ms
2 f0-1-100.syd003.pacific.net.au (210.23.140.253) 1.838 ms 2.382 ms 3.035 ms
3 203.208.148.177 (203.208.148.177) 4.137 ms 3.271 ms 1.878 ms
4 203.208.171.213 (203.208.171.213) 2.305 ms 2.678 ms 1.367 ms
5 203.208.154.49 (203.208.154.49) 155.799 ms 155.142 ms 184.075 ms
6 sl-gw8-sj-1-0.sprintlink.net (144.228.44.105) 177.100 ms 157.859 ms 155.735 ms
7 sl-bb25-sj-6-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.3.113) 156.705 ms 156.442 ms 157.822 ms
8 sl-bb24-sj-15-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.3.217) 156.900 ms 157.337 ms 156.877 ms
9 sl-bb20-ana-6-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.100) 167.312 ms 166.628 ms 174.772 ms
10 sl-gw23-ana-9-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.1.46) 191.937 ms 171.450 ms 197.057 ms
11 sl-savvis-14-0.sprintlink.net (160.81.103.46) 169.527 ms 169.707 ms 169.408 ms
12 stamin-1.savvis-internet.uslsan2-j20c.savvis.net.66.240.64.in-ad (64.240.66.6) 177.887 ms 177.108 ms 184.925 ms
13 core01.irv.staminus.net (65.215.220.2) 217.563 ms 172.922 ms 173.620 ms
14 web1.staminus.net (65.215.220.10) 187.549 ms 176.731 ms 173.790 ms
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Well I guess that the best US location for a server catering to AU clients is going to be anyone on the US west coast with which telsra directly peers. I'm not smart enough to know who they might be
But I will also say this. I've got one customer who is "testing me out" after having been with a shared host using rackspace because he reckons that some AU customers just couldn't connect to his site without timeouts. Is it also a question of the number of hops and not just the ping times. I mean, I have tracerouted to some US dedi host and come close to 30 hops - imagine if I was behind a corporate firewall/complex private network at my end!
I am very curious to know how the other aussie hosts here that use nac.net and pwebtech find it suites their AU clients, because right now - even though I do not specifically market web hosting per se - I seem to have a stream of aussie web site owners approaching me on word of mouth looking for a better deal on their web hosting.
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08-05-2002, 08:30 PM #21Web Hosting Guru
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and the result?
is there agreement on who provides the best ping speed / least amount of hops for sites hosted in the US accessed from Australia?
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Staminus in my opinion, can't get any better than 14 hops and 173 ms!
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Whats staminus.net like support and uptime wise???
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08-05-2002, 11:57 PM #24Eternal Member
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Originally posted by edude
Staminus in my opinion, can't get any better than 14 hops and 173 ms!
20 hops to Staminus, compared to 19 right now to a box we have at Rackshack.
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they are the same hops I got...
and pinging between staminus and rackshack client results in one being better, then reversing next time I try !
so close.... hard to decide....
support and reliability are the factors now I guess!