Which Linode is the best if you serve a Malaysian audience
On 19 April 2010, I did some quick research to see which Linode host was right for you, if you were serving mostly Malaysian clients. I did traceroutes and looked at the output of curl. Linode provides speedtest files for you (they’re 100MB in size). I tested it against Streamyx 512kbps and 4mbps accounts (something that I can say was popular in Malaysia back in 2010). I intend to repeat this test again soon, but I have no longer got any Streamyx accounts available, so I expect all this should be much faster.
| Server | 512kbps tracert hops |
512kbps avg download speed | 512kbps time spent | 4mbps tracert hops | 4mbps avg download speed | 4mbps time spent |
| London | 8 | 52722 | 0:33:08 | 8 | 103k | 0:16:24 |
| Newark | 11 | 52561 | 0:33:14 | 11 | 192k | 0:08:52 |
| Atlanta | 12 | 52663 | 0:33:11 | 13 | 261k | 0:06:31 |
| Dallas | 16 | 47762 | 0:36:35 | 16 | 99k | 0:17:07 |
| Fremont | 9 | 52338 | 0:33:23 | 9 | 408k | 0:04:10 |
From the table above, you want the highest average download speed, with the lowest time spent. Upon multiple tests, on a 512kbps link, London was the quickest in terms of delivery (it also only took 8 hops to reach). However on the 4mbps link, its clear that Fremont is the best, even though it took 9 hops to reach.
Conclusion for me back then was that Fremont is a clear winner so choose a server based in Fremont. Tokyo didn’t exist before. Go on, host at Linode, they’re a great VPS provider.
