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Well, you get a 10 Gbps pipe with DO, while only 75 Mbps with Linode, lol!

by nik736 10y ago

msbarnett 10y ago
Appears to have been a typo. It now starts at 1000 Mbps on the smaller instances.
tomschlick 10y ago
Linode is 40Gbps IN, 1Gbps out for the $5 instance. The 75Mbps was a misprint.
- biot 10y ago
  From Soh (Linode) in the comments [0]: "We’ve deliberated and brought the floor for all plans to have 1000Mbps. Thanks for your feedback!" So it appears that 75Mbps was the initial speed but after some internal deliberation (possibly influenced by feedback), they raised it to 1000Mbps. [0] https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and-5-linodes/#comment-1280523 https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and...
  - tomschlick 10y ago
    Had not seen that, thanks!
IFeelOK 10y ago
We did an on-the-spot upgrade to that speed, the new floor for all plans will be 1000Mbps. The blog should be updated now, might need a refresh to see: https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and-5-linodes/ https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and...
x0x0 10y ago
That 10gbps is highly variable. I use one of my DO instances as staging for file transfers. 2 days a month, I can barely get more than 30K/s from their sf data center to comcast. Other days, I get 5M/s. Their network is shitty. And I don't think I'm being rate-limited; it's 1-2G transfer per day.
- nik736 10y ago
  Only new locations (FRA, SFO2) have the 10 Gbps pipe, and I am constantly able to push 2-5 Gbps through it in Frankfurt.
- manacit 10y ago
  Keep in mind that bandwidth bottlenecks can happen on both sides - depending on the peering that is chosen between Comcast and DigitalOcean, there might be a significant oversubscription between two peering providers that's causing this. DigitalOcean might happily be able to push 10g to their next hop, but beyond that things are significantly more outside of their control. This is mistaken as 'throttling' a lot, but is actually just ISPs not investing in peering to handle their peak demand. Similar to the Netflix and Cogent issue that happened a couple of years back. At times, I can get better speeds by tunneling or proxying using a DigitalOcean Droplet and downloading something from overseas than I can doing it directly. The path taken from my home internet to the DO Droplet uses different peering than my path to Europe, and the speeds are faster overall even though it creates more hops.

Well, you get a 10 Gbps pipe with DO, while only 75 Mbps with Linode, lol!

by nik736 10y ago

Well, you get a 10 Gbps pipe with DO, while only 75 Mbps with Linode, lol!

msbarnett 10y ago

Appears to have been a typo. It now starts at 1000 Mbps on the smaller instances.

tomschlick 10y ago

Linode is 40Gbps IN, 1Gbps out for the $5 instance. The 75Mbps was a misprint.

biot 10y ago
From Soh (Linode) in the comments [0]: "We’ve deliberated and brought the floor for all plans to have 1000Mbps. Thanks for your feedback!" So it appears that 75Mbps was the initial speed but after some internal deliberation (possibly influenced by feedback), they raised it to 1000Mbps. [0] https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and-5-linodes/#comment-1280523 https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and...
- tomschlick 10y ago
  Had not seen that, thanks!

IFeelOK 10y ago

We did an on-the-spot upgrade to that speed, the new floor for all plans will be 1000Mbps. The blog should be updated now, might need a refresh to see: https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and-5-linodes/ https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and...

x0x0 10y ago

That 10gbps is highly variable. I use one of my DO instances as staging for file transfers. 2 days a month, I can barely get more than 30K/s from their sf data center to comcast. Other days, I get 5M/s. Their network is shitty. And I don't think I'm being rate-limited; it's 1-2G transfer per day.

nik736 10y ago
Only new locations (FRA, SFO2) have the 10 Gbps pipe, and I am constantly able to push 2-5 Gbps through it in Frankfurt.
manacit 10y ago
Keep in mind that bandwidth bottlenecks can happen on both sides - depending on the peering that is chosen between Comcast and DigitalOcean, there might be a significant oversubscription between two peering providers that's causing this. DigitalOcean might happily be able to push 10g to their next hop, but beyond that things are significantly more outside of their control. This is mistaken as 'throttling' a lot, but is actually just ISPs not investing in peering to handle their peak demand. Similar to the Netflix and Cogent issue that happened a couple of years back. At times, I can get better speeds by tunneling or proxying using a DigitalOcean Droplet and downloading something from overseas than I can doing it directly. The path taken from my home internet to the DO Droplet uses different peering than my path to Europe, and the speeds are faster overall even though it creates more hops.