Speed & Ping Tests for Cloud Hosting Providers

Notes:

• Speed tests for each data center 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 has crashed, 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 in speed.sh.
• AWS and GCP tests courtesy of CloudHarmony.
• 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 automatically:

wget -qO - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jakejarvis/datacenter-speed-tests/master/ping.sh | bash
wget -qO - 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

Data centers:

Scripts will test speed and pings to the following data centers:

DigitalOcean: (locations)

• NYC1
• NYC2
• NYC3
• SFO1
• SFO2
• TOR1
• LON1
• FRA1
• AMS2
• AMS3
• SGP1
• BLR1

Linode: (locations)

• Newark
• Atlanta
• Dallas
• Fremont
• London
• Frankfurt
• Singapore
• Tokyo

Amazon Web Services: (locations)

• us-east-1
• us-east-2
• us-west-1
• us-west-2
• ca-central-1
• eu-north-1
• eu-central-1
• eu-west-1
• eu-west-2
• eu-west-3
• ap-northeast-1
• ap-northeast-2
• ap-northeast-3
• ap-south-1
• ap-southeast-1
• ap-southeast-2
• ap-east-1
• sa-east-1
• me-south-1

Google Cloud: (locations)

• us-east1
• us-east4
• us-west1
• us-west2
• us-central1
• northamerica-northeast1
• asia-east1
• asia-east2
• asia-northeast1
• asia-northeast2
• asia-south1
• asia-southeast1
• australia-southeast1
• europe-north1
• europe-west1
• europe-west2
• europe-west3
• europe-west4
• europe-west6
• southamerica-east1

Vultr/Choopa: (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

Screenshots:

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Inspired by https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/6ylmki/heres_an_easy_way_to_find_the_nearest/