[ikk157]

 To be honest I don't know how the networking of a foreign IP works.  Virmach has IPs in Europe including Germany.  I previously had an IP that was from Phoenix and my ISP in South Africa was OK with it with real big speads and only 36 ping.  When the VPS was upgraded the IP had to be changed for some or other reason.  Now when I check my speed, it says IP is in Frankfurt.  So I assume the IP is German, and it has to be networked in a way that it works with Phoenix because the VPS location is still given as Phoenix.  Maybe another member has more insight into this.  But if I am right, then it means it would make it very difficult for an ISP from South Africa to get to Phoenix.  Hence the more than tripling of the Ping and speed decreasing to less than a third of what it used to be before.

You're lucky, you got a VPS 9 that was upgraded with no issues.  Mine is the very last and it would seem the further down the line they were upgraded, the less time they had to do it with, and probably started to mass produce the upgrades with not the same positive response Seattle and Chicago VPS 9 had.

Are you sure it's Virmach though - and not your ISP?

It can’t possibly be my ISP. I ran the speed test directly from the VPS itself, and as you can see in my review (I’ve added the speedtest cli results according to hidden refuge’s suggestion, so you might’ve not seen them) the speeds are nowhere close to the gigabit speed that the VPS should theoretically have.