Rant: How to Fudge Your Statistics ( or Why Ping Is Not a Good Measure)

Statistics on how leaving Media Temple has improved website performance.

I could ping my site just fine:

Since I moved from a US Provider to a European Provider the response times are normal.

But when you look at polling the HTTP response:

Thats three or four seconds for a HTTP response.

And now the HTTP response is typically less than 500 ms. Given how cheap my hosting is, I can live with the variable hosting.

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Statistics are from a free online monitoring tool mon.itor.us. Good stuff.