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+# Speed & Ping Tests for Cloud Hosting Providers
+
+Shell script to test speed and pings to the following datacenters:
+
+**Notes:**
+
+- Speed tests for ***each datacenter*** can use up to **100MB of data**. Be careful if your ISP caps your data usage!
+- Files are downloaded via HTTP (not HTTPS) to get pure speed without encryption overhead.
+- If it looks like the script is doing nothing, the current test is probably just taking a while — especially when testing far-away regions. If you already know that testing other continents is futile, just remove them from the for loops. (progress indicators are on the to-do list!)
+- AWS and GCP tests courtesy of [CloudHarmony](https://cloudharmony.com/).
+- Tests can always be influenced by outside variables. Run the scripts multiple times if you want to ensure accuracy. Obviously, evil throttling ISPs can mess up the results too.
+
+**Usage:**
+
+If you trust me, these commands will download and run the scripts:
+
+```
+curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jakejarvis/datacenter-speed-tests/master/ping.sh | bash
+curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jakejarvis/datacenter-speed-tests/master/speed.sh | bash
+```
+
+Or, clone the repository and make sure you make the scripts executable before running:
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/jakejarvis/datacenter-speed-tests.git
+cd datacenter-speed-tests
+chmod +x ping.sh && chmod +x speed.sh
+./ping.sh
+./speed.sh
+```
+
+**DigitalOcean:** [(locations)](https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/platform/availability-matrix/#datacenter-regions)
+
+- NYC1
+- NYC2
+- NYC3
+- SFO1
+- SFO2
+- TOR1
+- LON1
+- FRA1
+- AMS2
+- AMS3
+- SGP1
+- BLR1
+
+**Linode:** [(locations)](https://www.linode.com/linodes#features-dc-container)
+
+- Newark
+- Atlanta
+- Dallas
+- Fremont
+- London
+- Frankfurt
+- Singapore
+- Tokyo
+
+**Amazon Web Services:** [(locations)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Concepts.RegionsAndAvailabilityZones.html)
+
+- us-east-1
+- us-west-1
+- us-west-2
+- eu-central-1
+- eu-west-1
+- eu-west-2
+- ap-northeast-1
+- ap-south-1
+- ap-southeast-1
+- ap-southeast-2
+- sa-east-1
+
+**Google Cloud:** [(locations)](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones/)
+
+- us-central1
+- us-east1
+- us-east4
+- us-west1
+- northamerica-northeast1
+- asia-east1
+- asia-east2
+- asia-northeast1
+- asia-south1
+- asia-southeast1
+- australia-southeast1
+- europe-north1
+- europe-west1
+- europe-west2
+- europe-west3
+- europe-west4
+- southamerica-east1
+
+**Vultr/Choopa:** [(locations)](https://www.vultr.com/locations/)
+
+- nj-us
+- il-us
+- ga-us
+- fl-us
+- tx-us
+- sjo-ca-us
+- lax-ca-us (down at time of commit)
+- wa-us
+- tor-ca
+- fra-de
+- ams-nl
+- par-fr
+- lon-gb
+- syd-au
+- sgp
+- hnd-jp
+
+---
+
+Inspired by https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/6ylmki/heres_an_easy_way_to_find_the_nearest/