NetMechanic Monitoring

[bvanderwerf]

Hi,

I've been monitoring my site on IH with the free NetMechanic service. I monitored it for two 8-hour periods. Both times, the Ping score was in the warning range (30 percentile). The DNS lookup, connect time, and download time were in the acceptable range, with an overall score of 'Fair.'

Should I make anything of this?

--Bruce

[Steven]

Bruce,
I would not make anything of this, as often times these services prove to be unrealible, especially the free ones. What I would do if I was you to test the speed is have a download file, 8mb in size and download it to your local computer at various times during the day. Our network is very fast from here in CA and all over the country. For pings, you can use your local computer and run a ping from there to determine the speed, which I'm sure when you will test will be great.

I'm sure that many IH clients will attest to the fact that the speed of our servers is great.

-Steven

[lucas]

one of the selling points for insider hosting for me has been the speed of the servers. i've already gone through two hosts in the past two weeks trying to find a decent one and i am confident i have with insider hosting.

the best idea is load up a properly optimized website, and have many people from different locations ping and download its content over a period of time. thats the only real way to test a server the right way.

[Chris]

I was talking to Steve the other night on AIM and was telling him that I noticed a slight drop in the speed that I could download my backup file in. Normally I would be able to get around 620 KB/sec while downloading it. and then it dropped down to 500 KB/sec max. It doesn't bother me since most people can't download that fast anyway. (My backup file is about 90 megs. You can test the connection out real well with that. I think.)

Steve said that the servers didn't take anymore load since I noticed that, and my connection has been pretty good lately, too. The only thing that I could think of was when I got a new desk I could no longer use my second network card since the cat 5 cable was not long enough (Yes. It was THAT taunt already.) This shouldn't really even effect it since my network card should EASILY be able to max out my internet connection.

I have yet to really run any real "test" to see if it really WAS that second network card that gave me that extra "umph". I doubt that the other network card, which is ISA not PCI, really made all that difference.

I'll have to check it out some more later though.

All in all I think IH's servers are about as fast as I have ever seen. Kinda like those Windows updates that you download from Microsoft that download so fast it's not even funny.

[lucas]

i just completed a netmechanic test and they turned out very well. http://scp.netmechanic.com/reports/free/233/1545/43-011191.htm

90 ms is not bad for an average during the busiest time of the day.

[Chris]

Reply from 66.227.5.233: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=238
Reply from 66.227.5.233: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=238
Reply from 66.227.5.233: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=238
Reply from 66.227.5.233: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=238
Yup. Fast. Good.

[harmonic]

Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=<10ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=<10ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=<10ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=<10ms TTL=128


faster ;)

[Steven]

You're cheating. :) Just so everyone knows he is pinging his own computer.

-Steven