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

29th April 2008 By Leave a Comment

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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Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

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