Frick'n fast!
In other words, your server sits on a 100Mbps pipe to our colocation backbone. Our colocation backbone is comprised of connections ranging from gigE (1,000 Mbps) fiber rings in Silicon Valley to cross-country and cross-continent OC48 circuits, which connect several major exchange points, such as PAIX (Palo Alto), AADS (Chicago), Equinix Ashburn (Ashburn), NYIIX (New York), Telehouse (London) and MAE West (San Jose). For more information, visit our Network Map.
Example download from kernel.org to a Redwood Virtual server:Can you download a Linux kernel in less than 4 seconds? You can if you are a Redwood Virtual customer!
(updated 3/3/2004)
# pwd
/dev/shm
# time wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.3.tar.bz2
--20:57:37-- http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.3.tar.bz2
=> `linux-2.6.3.tar.bz2'
Resolving kernel.org... 204.152.189.116
Connecting to kernel.org[204.152.189.116]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 34,271,622 [application/x-bzip2]
100%[=================================>] 34,271,622 9.61M/s ETA 00:00
20:57:41 (9.60 MB/s) - `linux-2.6.3.tar.bz2' saved [34271622/34271622]
real 0m3.645s
user 0m0.077s
sys 0m3.558s
That's only 3.65 seconds!
This page is meant to show you the raw speed that Redwood Virtual possesses. We download the kernel to /dev/shm (shared memory) to eliminate any disk latency to have a close to optimal network speed test. Configuring a custom kernel for your service is unavailable at this time. However, our kernels are very flexible. They support a variety of file systems, iptables, ipvs (ip virtual server), cbqinit (traffic shaping), IPV6, RAID, etc. We always keep the newest kernel available for use - requiring only a server restart if you want the newest kernel.
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