How about smarthost? Evaluation of VPS in Dallas (Texas-USA) data center

How about smarthost? How about smarthost’s VPS in Dallas data center? smarthost has its own VPS business in Dallas, the central region of the United States. It should be relatively balanced for various regions in the United States. It should be quite good for deploying its own business in North America. If you want to buy smarthost’s Dallas VPS, please select “Location -Texas – USA” when placing an order. What is the actual effect? Is it suitable for use in mainland China environment? Please read this review, the data is for reference only!

Official website: https://www.smarthost.net/

Special note: The order page will load reCAPTCHA verification, which is harmonious in mainland China; the system comes with fraud detection (requires the customer's IP address, phone number, and selected country, authenticity is not required, but these three The information must be consistent, otherwise it will not pass the automatic detection of the system and you will not be able to buy a VPS. For example: "Hong Kong IP, US phone number, registration information, select the UK", this is not consistent!)

The CPU model used by the VPS in Dallas is e5-2670, 2.6GHz, which looks relatively old; the webmaster habitually enables BBR, and actually saw the network in the computer room. The current hard disk I/O is approximately 384MB/S. Appearance:

The data for FIO test hard read and write are as follows:

Use speedtest to run uplink and downlink on some nodes of the three networks in mainland China to see how much bandwidth can be achieved? The approximate data is as follows:

Look at the evening peak data again:

Continue to look at some international node data of speedtest:

Node data in Asia region of speedtest:

iperf3 test data on European and American nodes:

Iperf3 is still testing European and American nodes, but this time it is an IPv6 environment:

From the previous test, it seems that the uplink of Dallas Data's VPS is relatively poor, only 20Mbps...

For the files stored on the test chicken, the download speed of Guangzhou Telecom’s home bandwidth is roughly as follows:

Pay attention to the effect of the backbone network blocking period during the evening peak:

Evening peak, Hubei Shiyan Telecom’s download speed:

In the evening peak, the download speed of Sichuan Meishan China Unicom:

Latency test data of multi-nodes of three networks in mainland China:

Outbound journey from China Telecom: Directly connected to China Telecom’s San Jose node and then transferred to GTT to Dallas

Outward journey from China Unicom: directly connect to China Unicom’s Los Angeles node and then take GTT to Dallas

Mobile outbound journey: directly connect to Mobile Seattle node and then take level 3 to Dallas

Telecom return:

Beijing direction: Take level 3 to sail from San Jose and return to China via purely international routes

Shanghai direction: Take GTT to San Jose, and return directly from China Telecom’s San Jose node

Guangzhou direction: Take GTT to Seattle, Washington, and return directly from China Telecom’s Seattle node

China Unicom return trip:

Beijing direction: Take the GTT to Los Angeles, and return to China via purely international routes

In the direction of Shanghai and Guangzhou: take level 3 to San Jose/Los Angeles, and return home directly from China Unicom and level 3 pop in San Jose/Los Angeles

Mobile return trip: take level 3 to Los Angeles/Seattle, and directly connect back to China from Mobile’s node in Los Angeles/Seattle

Tiktok streaming media unlock: United States

Unblocking some cross-region streaming media:

Some streaming media unlocking tests in North America:

VPS performance test, some data:

A rough summary:

The VPS performance is average, not particularly bad, not great, just passable;

As for the network, although it seems that most of the nodes are directly connected from the West Coast to pop back to China, in view of the bandwidth problems of the fantong computer room going to Asia, plus the uplink and downlink of our speedtest test, the webmaster suggested Users in mainland China should forget it and don’t waste time! This article can be regarded as a VPS that shuts down Dallas data!

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