So, today, a customer was asking if we could show speed tests to CDN.

So I used my french server to test external connections from outside of Rackspace. For a CDN, it’s fairly speedy!

#!/bin/bash
CSTATS=`curl -w '%{speed_download}\t%{time_namelookup}\t%{time_total}\n' -o /dev/null -s http://6281487ef0c74fc1485b-69e4500000000000dfasdcd1b6b.r12.cf1.rackcdn.com/bigfile-rackspace-testing`
SPEED=`echo $CSTATS | awk '{print $1}' | sed 's/\..*//'`
DNSTIME=`echo $CSTATS | awk '{print $2}'`
TOTALTIME=`echo $CSTATS | awk '{print $3}'`
echo "Transfered $SPEED bytes/sec in $TOTALTIME seconds."
echo "DNS Resolve Time was $DNSTIME seconds."

# ./speedtest.sh
Transfered 3991299 bytes/sec in 26.272 seconds.
DNS Resolve Time was 0.061 seconds.
root@ns310045:~# ./speedtest.sh
Transfered 7046221 bytes/sec in 14.881 seconds.
DNS Resolve Time was 0.004 seconds.
root@ns310045:~# ./speedtest.sh
Transfered 29586916 bytes/sec in 3.544 seconds.
DNS Resolve Time was 0.004 seconds.
root@ns310045:~# ./speedtest.sh
Transfered 14539272 bytes/sec in 7.212 seconds.
DNS Resolve Time was 0.004 seconds.
root@ns310045:~# ./speedtest.sh
Transfered 9060846 bytes/sec in 11.573 seconds.
DNS Resolve Time was 0.004 seconds.
root@ns310045:~# ./speedtest.sh
Transfered 25551753 bytes/sec in 4.104 seconds.
DNS Resolve Time was 0.004 seconds.
root@ns310045:~# ./speedtest.sh
Transfered 28225927 bytes/sec in 3.715 seconds.
DNS Resolve Time was 0.004 seconds.
root@ns310045:~# ./speedtest.sh
Transfered 9036412 bytes/sec in 11.604 seconds.
DNS Resolve Time was 0.004 seconds.
root@ns310045:~# ./speedtest.sh
Transfered 32328623 bytes/sec in 3.243 seconds.
DNS Resolve Time was 0.004 seconds.