[deanhills]

How reliable is Ookla Speedtest for comparing the speed of two VPSs?  I'm trying to compare my Phoenix VPS 9 speed with that of Dallas VPS 9.

After the upgrade of my VPS 9 Phoenix last November from OpenVZ 6 to KVM, my IP was changed.  Then when I tested the speed of the VPS it came up with similar results as today's test, like with a HUGE Ping and saying location is Frankfurt, whereas the location is really US in Phoenix.  So how reliable is that really?  Like with that huge Ping I should feel a huge latency issue with Phoenix, but I don't.  My VPS 9 Phoenix performs just as seamless as Dallas, although Dallas feels faster in speed when I work with it (disk speed shows much greater speed as well - refer Benchmark test results of the two VPSs below).  Although my ISP does work faster with Dallas.

Below is the Ookla Speedtest that was taken of VPS 9 Phoenix:



And this is the Speedtest of VPS 9 Dallas:



I've done a quick Benchmark test to compare the two (credit to @"Hidden Refuge"):

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wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hidden-refuge/bench-sh-2/master/bench.sh && bash bench.sh -b && rm bench.sh

VPS 9 Phoenix

System Info
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Processor       : Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz
CPU Cores       : 2
Frequency       : 2399.996 MHz
Memory          : 7870 MB
Swap            : buffers/cache: MB
Uptime          : 86 days, 11:25,


Speedtest (IPv4 only)
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Your public IPv4 is 50.2.xx.xx

Location                Provider        Speed
CDN                     Cachefly        66.1MB/s

Lenoir, NC, US          Dacentec        28.5MB/s
Dallas, TX, US          Softlayer       43.1MB/s
Seattle, WA, US         Softlayer       34.7MB/s
San Jose, CA, US        Softlayer       52.8MB/s
Washington, DC, US      Leaseweb        30.1MB/s

Tokyo, Japan            Linode          15.7MB/s
Singapore               Softlayer       7.65MB/s
Taiwan                  Hinet           7.25MB/s

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net         14.7MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb        10.5MB/s


Disk Speed
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I/O (1st run)   : 129 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 108 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 87.6 MB/s
Average I/O     : 108 MB/s or .10 GB/s

Dallas

System Info
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Processor       : Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz
CPU Cores       : 2
Frequency       : 2499.998 MHz
Memory          : 7870 MB
Swap            : buffers/cache: MB
Uptime          : 2:48,


Speedtest (IPv4 only)
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Your public IPv4 is 23.94.xx.xx

Location                Provider        Speed
CDN                     Cachefly        81.3MB/s

Lenoir, NC, US          Dacentec        53.6MB/s
Dallas, TX, US          Softlayer       57.4MB/s
Seattle, WA, US         Softlayer       30.2MB/s
San Jose, CA, US        Softlayer       33.9MB/s
Washington, DC, US      Leaseweb        25.4MB/s

Tokyo, Japan            Linode          10.2MB/s
Singapore               Softlayer       6.91MB/s
Taiwan                  Hinet           6.20MB/s

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net         27.2MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb        80.6MB/s


Disk Speed
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I/O (1st run)   : 522 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 473 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 612 MB/s
Average I/O     : 535 MB/s or .53 GB/s