Does anyone know how Linode's latency from Chicago compares to Slicehost (which is 20ms round-trip for me)?
At work, I'm stuck with servers that are 100ms+ away, and they are unusable over ssh with that latency. I'm willing to switch to Linode, but only if I get box-under-my-desk-like speed :)
Forgive me for being kindof ignorant here, but wouldn't this be pretty heavily dependent on your connection? If you're close (logically, as in network hops) to their datacenter?
dude I tunnel into their cali DC and work over ssh from Dunedin, New Zealand and it's fine. That's a distance of 11,500km. Latency may not be your biggest problem
At work, I'm stuck with servers that are 100ms+ away, and they are unusable over ssh with that latency. I'm willing to switch to Linode, but only if I get box-under-my-desk-like speed :)