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Did you measure the latency difference by any chance? I am really considering buying one host there, would love to get an idea on this.


That's what typical response times look like: http://i45.tinypic.com/qq1xmd.png

(this measures the total time to download a static Hello World HTML page 325 bytes in size hosted on IIS from an EX 4S server in Hetzner's DC15 data centre).


Thanks for providing a screenshot - exactly what I needed to know!


NY: ~100ms

CA: just under 200ms

Asia: even +300ms

didn't check Southern hemisphere


"Speed of light sucks" (John Carmack)


Australia ~350ms


South Africa, ~210ms


Great, thanks!


But also you could use Cloudflare to make your site faster in these regions :)


250ms to Fibertel in Buenos Aires.




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