Digital Ocean appears to have their hosts inside of https://www.serverstack.com/ (Its in New York apparently.) I can get about 4.2 megabytes/sec (42mbit/sec) from my host inside he.net(linode) Here is the link to test it yourself: http://speedtest-ny1.digitalocean.com/test.zip * $ traceroute speedtest-ny1.digitalocean.com traceroute to speedtest-ny1.digitalocean.com (69.55.54.75), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 router1-fmt.linode.com (184.105.143.85) 4.323 ms 4.358 ms 4.401 ms 2 10gigabitethernet2-3.core1.fmt1.he.net (64.62.250.5) 4.989 ms 5.276 ms 5.566 ms 3 10gigabitethernet1-1.core1.pao1.he.net (184.105.213.66) 0.844 ms 0.866 ms 1.006 ms 4 sjo-bb1-link.telia.net (213.248.86.53) 1.222 ms 1.306 ms 1.360 ms 5 level3-ic-157355-sjo-bb1.c.telia.net (213.248.98.30) 1.231 ms 1.179 ms 1.177 ms 6 vlan70.csw2.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.152.126) 71.638 ms vlan60.csw1.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.152.62) 71.679 ms 71.658 ms 7 ae-71-71.ebr1.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.69.153.5) 1.904 ms 1.838 ms 1.834 ms 8 ae-2-2.ebr2.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.135.186) 71.903 ms 71.989 ms 72.183 ms 9 ae-92-92.csw4.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.148.46) 71.388 ms ae-62-62.csw1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.148.34) 71.912 ms ae-72-72.csw2.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.148.38) 74.105 ms 10 ae-61-61.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.134.65) 72.136 ms ae-91-91.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.134.77) 71.942 ms 71.719 ms 11 ae-2-2.ebr1.Newark1.Level3.net (4.69.132.98) 77.195 ms 77.180 ms 78.953 ms 12 ae-1-51.edge3.Newark1.Level3.net (4.69.156.11) 71.921 ms 71.701 ms 72.054 ms 13 SERVERSTACK.edge3.Newark1.Level3.net (4.28.6.70) 97.116 ms 97.241 ms 97.719 ms 14 69.55.54.75 (69.55.54.75) 72.975 ms 72.678 ms 73.096 ms* *$ wget http://speedtest-ny1.digitalocean.com/test.zip Saving to: `test.zip.4' 82% [===============================================================================================================================================================> ] 79,167,488 4.21M/s eta 4s * >From my same server, here's what a fast test looks like: (Almost unfair as its just a fiber hop away, same city, different data center - I think.)
*$ traceroute kernel.org traceroute to kernel.org (149.20.20.133), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 router1-fmt.linode.com (184.105.143.85) 0.551 ms 0.566 ms 0.611 ms 2 10gigabitethernet2-3.core1.fmt1.he.net (64.62.250.5) 0.829 ms 1.111 ms 1.482 ms 3 10gigabitethernet1-1.core1.pao1.he.net (184.105.213.66) 6.252 ms 0.859 ms 0.927 ms 4 isc.gige-g4-17.core1.pao1.he.net (72.52.94.70) 1.309 ms 1.359 ms 1.534 ms 5 int-0-1-0-1.r1.pao1.isc.org (149.20.65.22) 2.105 ms int-0-1-0-0.r1.pao1.isc.org (149.20.65.20) 2.266 ms 2.254 ms 6 int-0-0-0-0.r1.sjc3.isc.org (149.20.65.19) 2.903 ms 3.201 ms 2.821 ms 7 pub1.kernel.org (149.20.20.133) 1.360 ms 1.350 ms 1.335 ms $ wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/testing/linux-3.8-rc4.tar.bz2 Saving to: `linux-3.8-rc4.tar.bz2' 89% [=============================================================================================================================================================================> ] 75,337,608 18.3M/s eta 1s *I think I'll stay with linode. :-) (It really does depend what coast your customers are on.)* * On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Mike Clark <[email protected]>wrote: > On 1/22/13 10:54, Brian J. Rogers wrote: > > I know I've asked for recommendations on who to use as a VPS provider in > > the past, so I thought I'd put this out there since I came across it this > > morning: > > > > digitalocean.com > > > > At initial glace they seem no better or worse than any other provider > I've > > seen. > > I'm interested to hear first-hand reviews, because Digital Ocean looks > like a really good deal. ThrustVPS <http://www.thrustvps.com>has > similarly priced plans, but I've read mixed reviews, some claiming > network slow-downs and disruptions. > > A quick google shows pretty good reviews for Digital Ocean, from what > I've read so far. > > _______________________________________________ > > UPHPU mailing list > [email protected] > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net > _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
