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Right linode is basically old school dedicated servers afaik but DO should be in different class

by dilyevsky 6y ago

dijit 6y ago
AWS networking isn't _great_ but it's decidedly better than DO (which is actually the worst of those listed based on my own TCP connection tests). Linode is pretty stable if not very exciting, Vultr is "better than DO", but their networks are almost always in maintenance. For a little context; I maintain IRC servers and those are currently hosted in vultr (with linked nodes in 5 regions), I notice ping spikes between those nodes often and sometimes congestion which drops users. (IRC is highly stateful TCP sessions). I've only known two truly good networking suppliers, GCP (and their magic BGP<->PoP<->Dark Fibre networks) and.. Tilaa.. (which is only hosted in Netherlands.. which is why I can't use them for my global network)
- dilyevsky 6y ago
  Awesome thanks for info. For gcp i notice occasional unavailability on the order of 10s of mins every quarter or so. That’s VM networking. Their loadbalancers are a different story as they are a complete crap
  - dijit 6y ago
    This is very much not my experience, do you have any more information? Any particular regions? Are you certain it's not a local ISP? (I used to run an always online video game and we had a LOOOOOT of connection issues from "Spectrum internet" on all of our servers including GCP ones.)
- dilyevsky 6y ago
  Answering here bc bottom post is locked for some reason - east1 occasionally disconnects from other regions. That is definitely within google backbone. Central-1 seems worse tho. If it’s less than an hour they dont bother with the status page. For loadbalancer its very much by design as they randomly send you rst when google rolls them for upgrade and in some other cases (I’m working on a blog post on this). Google support recommendation is to retry (foreals)

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Right linode is basically old school dedicated servers afaik but DO should be in different class

by dilyevsky 6y ago

Right linode is basically old school dedicated servers afaik but DO should be in different class

dijit 6y ago
AWS networking isn't _great_ but it's decidedly better than DO (which is actually the worst of those listed based on my own TCP connection tests). Linode is pretty stable if not very exciting, Vultr is "better than DO", but their networks are almost always in maintenance. For a little context; I maintain IRC servers and those are currently hosted in vultr (with linked nodes in 5 regions), I notice ping spikes between those nodes often and sometimes congestion which drops users. (IRC is highly stateful TCP sessions). I've only known two truly good networking suppliers, GCP (and their magic BGP<->PoP<->Dark Fibre networks) and.. Tilaa.. (which is only hosted in Netherlands.. which is why I can't use them for my global network)
- dilyevsky 6y ago
  Awesome thanks for info. For gcp i notice occasional unavailability on the order of 10s of mins every quarter or so. That’s VM networking. Their loadbalancers are a different story as they are a complete crap
  - dijit 6y ago
    This is very much not my experience, do you have any more information? Any particular regions? Are you certain it's not a local ISP? (I used to run an always online video game and we had a LOOOOOT of connection issues from "Spectrum internet" on all of our servers including GCP ones.)
- dilyevsky 6y ago
  Answering here bc bottom post is locked for some reason - east1 occasionally disconnects from other regions. That is definitely within google backbone. Central-1 seems worse tho. If it’s less than an hour they dont bother with the status page. For loadbalancer its very much by design as they randomly send you rst when google rolls them for upgrade and in some other cases (I’m working on a blog post on this). Google support recommendation is to retry (foreals)