{"id":2783,"date":"2013-09-16T13:11:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T18:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2013-09-16T13:16:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T18:16:48","slug":"which-linode-is-the-best-if-you-serve-a-malaysian-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/09\/16\/which-linode-is-the-best-if-you-serve-a-malaysian-audience","title":{"rendered":"Which Linode is the best if you serve a Malaysian audience"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 19 April 2010, I did some quick research to see which Linode<\/a> host was right for you, if you were serving mostly Malaysian clients. I did traceroutes and looked at the output of curl. Linode provides speedtest<\/a> files for you (they’re 100MB in size). I tested it against Streamyx 512kbps and 4mbps accounts (something that I can say was popular in Malaysia back in 2010). I intend to repeat this test again soon, but I have no longer got any Streamyx accounts available, so I expect all this should be much faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Server<\/td>\n512kbps
tracert hops<\/td>\n		512kbps avg download speed<\/td>\n512kbps time spent<\/td>\n4mbps tracert hops<\/td>\n4mbps avg download speed<\/td>\n4mbps time spent<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
London<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n52722<\/td>\n0:33:08<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n103k<\/td>\n0:16:24<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Newark<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n52561<\/td>\n0:33:14<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n192k<\/td>\n0:08:52<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Atlanta<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n52663<\/td>\n0:33:11<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n261k<\/td>\n0:06:31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dallas<\/td>\n16<\/td>\n47762<\/td>\n0:36:35<\/td>\n16<\/td>\n99k<\/td>\n0:17:07<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fremont<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n52338<\/td>\n0:33:23<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n408k<\/td>\n0:04:10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

From the table above, you want the highest average download speed, with the lowest time spent. Upon multiple tests, on a 512kbps link, London was the quickest in terms of delivery (it also only took 8 hops to reach). However on the 4mbps link, its clear that Fremont is the best, even though it took 9 hops to reach.<\/p>\n

Conclusion for me back then was that Fremont is a clear winner so choose a server based in Fremont. Tokyo didn’t exist before. Go on, host at Linode<\/a>, they’re a great VPS provider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 19 April 2010, I did some quick research to see which Linode host was right for you, if you were serving mostly Malaysian clients. I did traceroutes and looked at the output of curl. Linode provides speedtest files for you (they’re 100MB in size). I tested it against Streamyx 512kbps and 4mbps accounts (something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1503],"tags":[1592,1591,137,1593,1594],"class_list":["post-2783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-curl","tag-linode","tag-malaysia","tag-traceroute","tag-vps"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-IT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2783"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2788,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions\/2788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}