Hey all, I’ll start by saying I’m really excited to try out the new Sudobox when ready, however I’m wondering if I’ll need to get a new host or reconfigure my dedicated host as I’m seeing some performance issues lately.
I have a an AX41-NVMe from Hetzner located in the Finland datacenter. I’ve also setup CloudFlare according to the excellent guide from @hawks to take advantage of the peering to improve speeds back to the US (I’m in Nebraska).
This setup has worked great for a little over a year and I’ve always been able to watch movies / tv at full quality without issues.
However lately I’ve noticed I need to dial down the PLEX settings to 8 mbps to maintain a stable stream.
LibreSpeed test on my server shows I am only getting around 20 mbps download (I’ve tested multiple times a day for a few days now).
As you can see LibreSpeed shows the IP address for a CloudFlare data center in Chicago, so I believe I am going though CloudFlare’s network.
When I run a speed test from CloudFlare it autodetects and uses what appears to be a very similar location (probably the same data center) in Chicago and I’m able to achieve over 300 mbps download.
When I run a command line speedtest (using speedtest.net’s python tool) I can achieve speeds over 800 mbps download to whatever the local speedtest.net server’s around the datacenter in Finland are.
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Hetzner Online GmbH (116.202.xxx.xx)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Retrieving information for the selected server...
Hosted by teliko GmbH (Limburg) [198.08 km]: 6.879 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 875.75 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed................................................................................................
Upload: 817.07 Mbit/s
So my questions:
- Has anyone else run into this lately? And for long periods of time (I’m going on a week or two now)
- Does anyone know what might be going on? Issue w/ Hetzner or issue w/ Cloudflare, etc…
- Does anyone have any other suggestions on how I can troubleshoot this further?
- Finally I’m curious if anyone has a similar setup and what sort of download speeds from Hetzner they get back here in the US?
Thank you!