I'm in the middle of the US, so Linode in Dallas offers much better ping times (29ms). To both NYC and SF digitalocean datacenters, I get 67-70ms pings. Honestly this is good enough for almost everything, but for teamspeak and game servers, I like having the lowest latency possible.

To add, I did my ping time testing with digitalocean using their test servers[0]. I also created my own droplets and saw the same latency/speeds.

[0] http://speedtest-sfo1.digitalocean.com/