Deskthority hosting

[webwit]

Please post your country or state and your ping times to deskthority.net and hetzner.de.

>ping deskthority.net
>ping hetzner.de

For me, from the Netherlands, 143-150ms to deskthority.net and 34ms-41ms to hetzner.de.
From deskthority.net, in Texas, it's 131ms to hetzner.de.

[Compgeke]

From Napa, California, USA:

56ms Average to deskthority.net

234ms Average to hetzner.de

[Ascaii]

Average ping to DT: 168 ms
average ping to hetzner: 37 m

location: Berlin, Germany

[Findecanor]

160.5 ms average to deskthority.net
48.75 ms average to hetzner.de

Location: Stockholm, Sweden. My router is not the fastest, though.

[webwit]

From Napa, California, USA:

56ms Average to deskthority.net

234ms Average to hetzner.de

How does 234ms feel when you browse to http://www.hetzner.de ? Does it feel responsive or do you notice the delay? I don't notice delay in my case of 150ms to deskthority.net, although I might note it if it's less than 40. But it doesn't bother my experience. One would probably note it when you have an autocompleting input field or something like that, shooting ajax requests at the server, but that is not our user case.

[webwit]

European and USA locations (now we have the west coast) are probably predictable now (but keep them coming), Asia and Australia will be interesting. If they go through the USA (which is probably the case), ping might be less acceptable...

[7bit]

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7bit@g3x0:~> ping deskthority.net
PING deskthority.net (209.62.95.146) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from webwit.nl (209.62.95.146): icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=174 ms
64 bytes from webwit.nl (209.62.95.146): icmp_seq=2 ttl=50 time=173 ms
64 bytes from webwit.nl (209.62.95.146): icmp_seq=3 ttl=50 time=172 ms
64 bytes from webwit.nl (209.62.95.146): icmp_seq=4 ttl=50 time=172 ms
64 bytes from webwit.nl (209.62.95.146): icmp_seq=5 ttl=50 time=176 ms
^C
--- deskthority.net ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4019ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 172.021/173.819/176.029/1.384 ms
7bit@g3x0:~> ping hetzner.de
PING hetzner.de (213.133.107.227) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www.hetzner.de (213.133.107.227): icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=54.9 ms
64 bytes from www.hetzner.de (213.133.107.227): icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=55.7 ms
64 bytes from www.hetzner.de (213.133.107.227): icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=53.8 ms
64 bytes from www.hetzner.de (213.133.107.227): icmp_seq=4 ttl=54 time=54.3 ms
64 bytes from www.hetzner.de (213.133.107.227): icmp_seq=5 ttl=54 time=55.0 ms
64 bytes from www.hetzner.de (213.133.107.227): icmp_seq=6 ttl=54 time=56.2 ms
--- hetzner.de ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5020ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 53.867/55.037/56.204/0.844 ms

7bit@g3x0:~> ping www.geekhack.org -w 4
PING www.geekhack.org (50.16.65.63) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- www.geekhack.org ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3014ms

Browsing DT as it is does not feel slow from where I am, so I think a few more ms would not hurt the few US guys.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

St Albans, UK —

deskthority.net, 132 ms average
hetzner.de, 30 ms average
bbc.co.uk, 13 ms average

[kps]

deskthority.net 64ms
hetzner.de 113ms
Ontario Canada.

[Acanthophis]

Berlin, Germany:

deskthority.net, 157ms average
heise.de, 30ms average
bbc.co.uk, 43ms average
reddit.com, 296ms average

[Muirium]

Edinburgh, Scotland:

deskthority.net, 141 ms
hetzner.de, 40 ms
bbc.co.uk, 24 ms
reddit.com, 295 ms
topre.co.jp, 22 ms

Wait a minute? Topre is hosted in Britain! Anyway, Hetnzer looks great from here.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

topre.co.jp doesn't resolve to an IP. I don't know what you're pinging there; tracert suggests www.topre.co.jp is in Japan ^_^

[matt3o]

from Italy
42ms hetner.de
176ms deskthority.net
28ms www.reddit.com

Compgeke's 230ms is a bit high though

[Muirium]

Compgeke's Californian perspective may be still be sunnier than 002's down under. Hopefully things won't be too bad for our Pacific peers, but who knows.

topre.co.jp doesn't resolve to an IP. I don't know what you're pinging there; tracert suggests http://www.topre.co.jp is in Japan ^_^

Ah, www. my old friend: the longest abbreviation in the world. And a trap for poorly configured DNS, too:

topre.co.jp: 67.215.65.132, 25 ms
www.topre.co.jp 164.46.125.227, 303 ms

Probably OpenDNS is kicking in to save my ping from Topre's oblivion. (I have OpenDNS set alongside Google as my router's DNS server.)

[Halvar]

KabelBW, Baden-Württemberg, Germany:

15 ms hetzner.de
148 ms deskthority.net

9 ms www.reddit.com
152 ms www.keycapsdirect.com
286 ms topre.co.jp
320 ms www.taobao.com

[Muirium]

I guess Reddit was just under a lot of load earlier. It's down to a very steady 34 ms here now. While Geekhack, characteristically, won't play ping at all!?


ping geekhack.org
PING geekhack.org (65.111.241.205): 56 data bytes
^C
--- geekhack.org ping statistics ---
67 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

[ne0phyte]

Average pings (Germany):

Deskthority.net: 141ms
Hetzner.de: 21ms
reddit.com: 13ms
google.de: 22ms

[002]

deskthority.net: 236ms
hetzner.de: 367ms
reddit.com: 31ms
taobao.com: 210ms
auctions.yahoo.co.jp: 254ms

[Muirium]

Ouch! Impressively quick for Reddit, though. How about other American websites, 002?

Chinese and Australian sites from Edinburgh, Scotland:

taobao.com: 333 ms
weibo.com: 227 ms
www.smh.com.au: 35 ms << Impressive!
www.abc.net.au: 31 ms << Okay, clearly you guys are cheating…
au.yahoo.com: 325 ms << But not good old Yahoo!

[rindorbrot]

Germany (pretty near to Frankfurt):

deskthority.net 225ms
hetzner.de 28ms
google.com 32ms
geekhack.org timeout (but the site is working )
reddit.com 39ms
heise.de 30ms
bbc.co.uk 40ms
pckeyboard.com 241ms
keyboardco.com 46ms

[002]

time.com: 65ms
apple.com: 58ms
twitter.com: 266ms

Seems I can't ping a lot of the other big ones in the States

[002]

lol Muirium you have better ping than I do to abc and smh

[Halvar]

The geekhack admins obviously decided that answering to pings poses a security risk...

10 ms www.smh.com.au
9 ms www.abc.net.au


These (like reddit) go to akamai servers though, guys who definitely know what they're doing ...

[Compgeke]

How does 234ms feel when you browse to http://www.hetzner.de ? Does it feel responsive or do you notice the delay?

It's not too terribly bad, I notice a partial lag when loading pages, although it's not enough for me to consider it to be unbearable. I'm also on about 300ms ping right now using 3G, early result was from school.

Compgeke's 230ms is a bit high though

I was on school wifi at the time, which may have had a part in it. I'll try again when I get home to see if there's any huge difference.

[Muirium]

These (like reddit) go to akamai servers though, guys who definitely know what they're doing ...

The big boys are using content distribution networks, which is why we're seeing "faster than light" ping times on some of these: they're cached. Especially big Australian sites over here, and big American ones down under.

But Chinese sites seem not to care about their performance abroad. So very realistic numbers from there. And a bit of a live worst case scenario for how DT will feel for the Far East, if the server comes to Europe.

[xbb]

67ms hetzner.de
180ms deskthority.net

Hate my connection

[tinnie]

276ms hetzner.de
223ms deskthority.net
142ms facebook.com
9ms google.com
3ms youtube.com

Spoiler:

359ms tube8.com

I don't care about the ping as long as the site works.

[Compgeke]

Now that I'm home (Yountville, CA) I get a 170ms average ping.

Another site I frequent, which is hosted in France, is 150ms ping, so 170 shouldn't be too bad.

[matt3o]

yeah <200ms is acceptable imho

[7bit]

Now that I'm home (Yountville, CA) I get a 170ms average ping.

Another site I frequent, which is hosted in France, is 150ms ping, so 170 shouldn't be too bad.

That's about what I have now, and I don't have the feeling it is slow.

tinlongs ping times are interesting. For East Asia it seems not to matter where the server is (US or EU).

...
15 ms hetzner.de
...

Halvar is the winner of this contest!