Does anyone know of an out-of-the-box solution for measuring regional latency? If not, please somebody make and productize it.
I'd love to know how my sites behave in Frankfurt, Mumbai, SF, Sydney, etc.
Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1
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Re: Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1
#172Does anyone know of an out-of-the-box solution for measuring regional latency? If not, please somebody make and productize it. I'd love to know how my sites behave in Frankfurt, Mumbai, SF, Sydney, etc.
Ngl, a website where you input a URL and it checks the latency around the world would be interesting. Bonus points for tying to guess where it's hosted.
Re: Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1
#173Does anyone know of an out-of-the-box solution for measuring regional latency? If not, please somebody make and productize it. I'd love to know how my sites behave in Frankfurt, Mumbai, SF, Sydney, etc.
Ngl, a website where you input a URL and it checks the latency around the world would be interesting. Bonus points for tying to guess where it's hosted.
https://onlineornot.com/do-i-need-a-cdn?url=https://www.goog...
Is pretty interesting.
If someone set up a postman style clone, but I could drop-down and run it from a server in ${wherever} - that might be worth something...?
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#174I don't buy this. Hacker News is one of the most responsive websites I know. And it is run on a single server somewhere in the USA. While I am in Europe. If you have users in Sydney, Australia ... ... you are floored at 104ms of latency for your request When I open AirBnB with a clean browser cache, it takes several seconds until I see something useful. Those 104ms of latency don't make a dent. Reddit takes over 5 se…
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#175It shows up if you need a CDN pretty clearly when you monitor uptime from around the world. The response time for Bitbucket for example is: 100ms from us-east 300ms from us-west 400ms from eu-central 600ms from tokyo 800ms from sydney (numbers from OnlineOrNot)
Actually I just built a tool to visualise this if you want to check it out: https://onlineornot.com/do-i-need-a-cdn?url=https://bitbucke...
I'm dense and just saw this. Its awesome fwiw!
If you could do something simple in the style of POSTMAN, but with less options - I'd pay fwiw. Not a lot, but if it existed - I'd want it!
Send a POST request to ${url} with ${headers} and ${body} and tell me how long it took from your servers...that'd be awesome!
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For the record: a PWA can also be served by a single request, it's called hydration. My issue with these kinds of discussions is that they're inevitably using outright false arguments. You can make a well performing website through SSR and a backend templating language, yes. However , In a business setting with lots of developers this usually becomes an abhorrently performing website despite the SSR with the same tem…
>You can make a well performing website through SSR and a backend templating language, yes. >However , In a business setting with lots of developers this usually becomes an abhorrently performing website despite the SSR with the same templating language. I'm not sure this follows. It's harder to do client side rendering because your data is across a slow HTTP barrier. And the client is maintaining state which is hard…
They do, look up the “Backend for Frontend” pattern.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ngl, a website where you input a URL and it checks the latency around the world would be interesting. Bonus points for tying to guess where it's hosted.
https://onlineornot.com/do-i-need-a-cdn?url=https://www.goog... Is pretty interesting. If someone set up a postman style clone, but I could drop-down and run it from a server in ${wherever} - that might be worth something...?
That is great, almost what I was imagining. I think it needs more places to ping from and a map in the webpage.
Suggestions aside, look at the difference between HN and Google (measured in milliseconds):
us-east: 39 HN, 40 GGL us-west: 128 HN, 118 GGL europe: 186 HN, 109 GGL tokyo: 291 HN, 143 GGL sydney: 405 HN, 303 GGL
Kind of interesting, did not expect Googles latency to be that high in Sydney.
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Several cases is no enough reason for me to avoid ISP DNS by default, many if not most ISP don’t spoof NXDOMAIN and provide fast DNS.
There's also the reality that using your ISP's DNS almost entirely moots any VPN you use. The main reason to use a VPN is to hide your browsing from your ISP and anyone your ISP might be reporting to (in the US for example we've seen several programs where the government intercepts ISP data at special places in interconnects, so even if your ISP publicly says your DNS is safe, it could actually be logged to a spy dat…
If you use VPN then you need to ensure that DNS traffic goes via VPN too of course. Not using ISP DNS is not enough in this case.
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#179I don't buy this. Hacker News is one of the most responsive websites I know. And it is run on a single server somewhere in the USA. While I am in Europe. If you have users in Sydney, Australia ... ... you are floored at 104ms of latency for your request When I open AirBnB with a clean browser cache, it takes several seconds until I see something useful. Those 104ms of latency don't make a dent. Reddit takes over 5 se…
I live right in the middle of the Silicon Valley and I observe the same timings.
Hacker news loads to content faster than Google or Bing search.
In fact hacker news is pretty much the only website I can actually feel slower to load when I am in France. Because the latency is actually not lost into the noise for once.
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually I just built a tool to visualise this if you want to check it out: https://onlineornot.com/do-i-need-a-cdn?url=https://bitbucke...
I'm dense and just saw this. Its awesome fwiw! If you could do something simple in the style of POSTMAN, but with less options - I'd pay fwiw. Not a lot, but if it existed - I'd want it! Send a POST request to ${url} with ${headers} and ${body} and tell me how long it took from your servers...that'd be awesome!
That's actually a feature of the underlying platform I work on:
https://onlineornot.com/api-monitoring
If it doesn't quite match what you expect I'd be happy to add additional features!