Sweet, Sweet Speed from the VPS Cloud!

We where just doing a few speed tests from within a VPS on the cloud, seeing that the entire network is Gbit based, we expected to see speeds above 100Mps .. and we did 😉

root@my:~# wget http://mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net/centos/5.2/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.2-x86_64-bin-1of7.iso
–15:35:17– http://mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net/centos/5.2/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.2-x86_64-bin-1of7.iso
=> `CentOS-5.2-x86_64-bin-1of7.iso’
Resolving mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net… 93.89.90.2
Connecting to mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net|93.89.90.2|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 652,449,792 (622M) [application/x-iso9660-image]
100%[======================================================================================================>] 652,449,792 18.87M/s ETA 00:00
15:35:47 (21.26 MB/s) – `CentOS-5.2-x86_64-bin-1of7.iso’ saved [652449792/652449792]

Thats 210Mps … sweeet 🙂