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For me, I have a few reasons I am staying with linode. The one not listed in this article is location. Linode had more data centers and has one that is half th
by kyrra 13y ago
For me, I have a few reasons I am staying with linode. The one not listed in this article is location. Linode had more data centers and has one that is half the ping to than any DO server. This is really only an issue for gaming related stuff I do with my server where ping matters.
- schneidmaster 13y agoThat's a fair reason, actually. I had a Newark Linode and now have a handful of NYC droplets and I'm not running any gaming servers so location didn't really matter at all to me.
- ariwilson 13y agoJust for reference in Los Angeles, I get a ping of 22ms to my Fremont, CA Linode and 83ms to a New York, NY droplet. That's enough to be a substantial difference for interactive use. Their SF datacenter doesn't seem to be available for new droplet creation as of right now at least...
- kyrra 13y agoI'm in the middle of the US, so Linode in Dallas offers much better ping times (29ms). To both NYC and SF digitalocean datacenters, I get 67-70ms pings. Honestly this is good enough for almost everything, but for teamspeak and game servers, I like having the lowest latency possible. To add, I did my ping time testing with digitalocean using their test servers[0]. I also created my own droplets and saw the same latency/speeds. [0] http://speedtest-sfo1.digitalocean.com/ http://speedtest-sfo1.digitalocean.com/