08 Oct 09 New Rapidswitch Server

Further to my UK VPS posts, I took out a nice new server at RapidSwitch. I am fully aware of their recent extended outages, however after some quite extensive research, I am confident enough that this was an isolated and unfortunate set of circumstances, and it will not dissuade me from hosting with them. Maybe I’m used to paying too much for bandwidth, but about £150.00 ($230?) per month for a dedicated 100mbit? I don’t believe it. I was paying that for about 3mbit in the past, albeit premium network and bandwidth (not to say that RS isn’t of course). I’ve run some speed tests at various times throughout the day and from various locations. Here’s my latest:

# wget http://download.thinkbroadband.com:8080/1GB.zip
–2009-10-07 22:17:07–  http://download.thinkbroadband.com:8080/1GB.zip
Resolving download.thinkbroadband.com… 80.249.99.148
Connecting to download.thinkbroadband.com|80.249.99.148|:8080… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 1073741824 (1.0G) [application/zip]
Saving to: `1GB.zip’

100%[==========/.../============>] 1,073,741,824 11.2M/s   in 96s

2009-10-07 22:18:42 (10.7 MB/s) – `1GB.zip’ saved [1073741824/1073741824]

10.7MB/sec average over 1GB download? That’s definitely 100mbit. I still can’t quite get over the speed for the price I’m paying.

Ping time from my local host (UK) is 16-17msec, from UK Solutions, it’s 5msec. From SagoNet in Florida, US, it’s 118msec.

Server was set up in about 18 hours from order, and that includes a private /26 AND a non standard routing setup, that they don’t offer by default.

So far so good, but very pleased at time of writing..

Tags: 100mbit, ping, rapidswitch, uk vps, vps

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