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Originally Posted by Spudstr
your 157ms vs my 65ms this can be a huge impact on lots of applications. While downloading a file between datacenters can be fast, lesser circuits may not be. I am just saying you really should be careful about hosting and place your content where it best suits your target audience, because in the end of the day latency matters.
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*that* is exactly my point right from the start. I know I can get good traceroutes from ovh to other DCs because of the exact reasons you stated. However, the reverse is NOT always true. I have servers in QN and tried the reverse and it went over cogent and all over the frikken place. Hence why my download speeds from that server are shit. And they will soon be moved to ovh.
That is *exactly* why I gave that test doc as a download test (just happens to be a frikken excellent magazine too) to see IF US people could get good speeds.
For the record, that QN traceroute and download only worked in that direction - if I showed the other way it would be frikken awful. But I am not out on a smear campaign - I am purely trying to let people know of the others available (and maybe take in some admin'ing duties in the meantime).
Like people have mentioned in this thread (yourself included), people simply say 'Impossible for OVH to offer those prices with quality service, their transit sucks to the US etc etc" and it's well, just bullshit. That is what I am debunking.
OVH have had their problems, sure like every other DC, but shit, what they've accomplished in 12 years - they get a hat off to them. I took chrage of my first dedicated server in 1996. I have gone from host to host to host since then (always US, once UK2.net) and now OVH. AND I can tell you, I have *never* felt at home in any other DC as I have at OVH. They give me, a server admin, every single tool I could need to monitor, problem solve, problem detect. Never before have I had that amount of control over my server. And that is EXACTLY what I want. Now they give me the same control over telephones and my personal ADSL/SDSL line. I am for once fully in control of everything I do on the internet, and it's thanks to them. So I'm sending them some free pub. Shit, it did turn into a thread high jack.