When I first joined Data102 the owners were fans of TMN, 'We use it all the time! It's our go-to test.' and so they gave me a favorable deal and placement in their datacenter. My cabinet is located only about 10 feet from where all of the connections come into the data center. When you use the Colorado test server, you're hitting a VPS running in that rack. When you visit '' it's served from Cloudflare CDN and goes to my rack here in Colorado. This is where the (currently) centralized databases run. today I have a cabinet of servers at Colohouse (formerly Data102) about 15 minutes from my house in Downtown Colorado Springs CO. Long story about how it was able to come back. From 1999 to 2001 I had to shut down because I exhausted all of my options. I've definitely had to be creative in the past to afford to run this site. How can you afford all this bandwidth? I do see some ads when I turn off blockers. I choose hosts who peer well with other hosts and have in many cases direct connections to the larger ISPs. This is the network capacity of the hosts I choose. After I get the beta released I'll probably start updating text across the site.

That was actually written so long ago, needs to be updated and includes much more currently. Global network reach utilizing over 25 Tier 1 network providers including Comcast, Cox, Time Warner, Charter, Qwest, Google, Level 3, Internap, NTT America, Equinix & Telefónica to name a fewĮxtensive peering relationships across North America, Europe and Asia Hosted network features multi-homed connectivity with bandwidth from independent Tier 1 carriers, combining multiple 10 Gbps connections to create one of the industry’s fastest networks. 's servers are all gigabit or multi-gigabit uplinked Total network bandwidth capacity in excess of 2000 Gbps Here's what I actually say on the website right now, Why do I have to turn off Privacy Badger in Firefox and Brave Shield in Brave to get your tests to work? What are the reasons for such a wide variance between multithread on and multithread off?ħ. I now have test data from six of my computers, with up/down, multithread on/off, to three test servers, how do I summarize this to present to Spectrum? Spreadsheets are too complex.Ħ. How can you afford all this bandwidth? I do see some ads when I turn off blockers.ĥ. Aren't most of the 43 or so US IXP's limited to a 100Gbps backbone?Ĥ. How is it that you can have a 2000Gbps backbone, as you say on your website?ģ.

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