2 September 2010

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:

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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:

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Thats three or four seconds for a HTTP response.

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


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

 

 

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About Greg Ferro
Greg is a Network and Security Architect / Designer / Engineer working freelance in the UK and worked for Resellers, DotCom's, Large Corporate's and Service Providers across a variety of products & Vendors. He prefers to work for end users, believes in the life cycle, total cost of ownership and that near enough is often good enough. He likes talking about himself in the first person to feel "royal", even when hosting the Packet Pushers Podcast on Data Networking. More about Greg at http://etherealmind.com/who-am-i/ and you can follow him on Twitter.

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