acceptable throughput/connectivity from VPS?

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Posted by elkram, 05-01-2016, 05:02 PM
Hi- What type of download and upload speeds do people typically see from their VPSes? Most packages are sold with "up to" 100Mbps links, but what I get is much less than that. I certainly don't expect 100Mbps or anything all that close to it, but I never even have seen short bursts above 25Mbps. Downloads FROM the VPS are 10-20Mbps Uploads TO the VPS are 25-30Mbps These results are using various protocols (http, ftp, ssh/sftp) and from various locations. My connection here is 100Mbps down and 35Mbps up. I regularly get 85-90Mbps from other servers/hosts. Traceroutes and ping plots all show no issues. Disk i/o is not a bottleneck either as it's SSD. Is 10-20Mbps download from a VPS acceptable or reasonable? This is a cPanel VPS from InMotion. Any thoughts? Thanks
Posted by Mike_A, 05-01-2016, 05:11 PM
Every provider is different. Has your VPS from InMotion ALWAYS been limited like that? Maybe they have shaping in place and don't tell clients, or maybe they just have bad routing/oversold bandwidth on nodes. Have you contacted them about it and asked them to test it themselves? If it's a problem, switch to a provider with guaranteed results. I'd recommend checking out RamNode. Here's a download on a 512MB RamNode CVPS I have.
Posted by Giovanni M, 05-01-2016, 06:55 PM
I agree with Mike, I personally think that 20Mbps is too low for a VPS, but I wouldn't bother if it's not causing issues. I would recommend contacting them first however to see if something is wrong from their side, or you can switch to RamNode as Mike recommended; they have decent networks for cheaper prices.
Posted by net, 05-01-2016, 07:05 PM
This is 1Gbps port speed not 100Mbps.
Posted by net, 05-01-2016, 07:06 PM
How do you test the speed?
Posted by Mike_A, 05-01-2016, 08:39 PM
And hopefully everybody realizes that
Posted by MightWeb-Marcus, 05-01-2016, 09:38 PM
Where are you physically located compared to the server? Routing and distance can definitely come into play.
Posted by elkram, 05-01-2016, 10:06 PM
As per the original post, using different protocols and different locations. If the client is a Windows machine I either eyeball it in TaskManager or use a small utility. In addition I track it through the pfSense firewall/router that I am behind.
Posted by elkram, 05-01-2016, 10:10 PM
The data center is in Washington, DC. I am just outside NYC. As per the original post, traceroutes and pings are fine. I download from other host machines in and around Washington at up to approximately 90Mbps.
Posted by net, 05-01-2016, 10:14 PM
With 100 Mbps, you would get something like 10.1M/s when using wget to download file. So, what do you get when you do wget from the server? This will depend also on network location where you are downloading, etc... it does change. So, test with the closest one.
Posted by elkram, 05-01-2016, 10:24 PM
Yes, I know the difference between Megabits and Megabytes, and wget yields the same results as the other protocols. I'm sorry if I hadn't already made it clear in the other posts that I've isolated those factors out of the tests. I'm comparing apples to apples; not apples to oranges. Thanks.
Posted by elkram, 05-01-2016, 10:34 PM
It's my first purchase from this provider and still brand new so I don't know about historical performance on this host node. I've opened a ticket with them but no real answers yet. Thanks