DigitalOcean Opens Singapore Data Center

Well-known hosting provider DigitalOcean today delighted everyone with the news about the launch of a new data center in Singapore. The data center was launched in collaboration with Equinix . This is long awaited and great news for those who care about their presence in the Asia-Pacific region.

This region became the sixth in addition to the existing ones, in which the creation of droplets is possible. Thus, the following regions are currently available for selection:

1. New york 1
2. Amsterdam 1
3. San francisco 1
4. New york 2
5. Amsterdam 2
6. Singapore 1

I tried creating a droplet in the new SGP1 region to look at the delay. For my case, the average delay is 317 ms. These values ​​are significantly higher than those for New York and Amsterdam.

SGP1 - Singapore

--- 128.199.253.115 ping statistics ---
571 packets transmitted, 556 received, 2% packet loss, time 571291ms
rtt min / avg / max / mdev = 284.834 / 317.866 / 387.451 / 18.845 ms

NYC2 - New York

--- 107.170.33. *** ping statistics ---
272 packets transmitted, 272 received, 0% packet loss, time 272032ms
rtt min / avg / max / mdev = 110.696 / 113.499 / 132.585 / 4.729 ms

AMS1 - Amsterdam

--- 146.185.173. *** ping statistics ---
100 packets transmitted, 100 received, 0% packet loss, time 99458ms
rtt min / avg / max / mdev = 38.865 / 39.422 / 45.910 / 0.954 m

In general, for whom this region is of interest - go for it. On the other hand, I would like to look at the delay values ​​from other havers, and the values ​​from China are especially interesting. If anyone has one, please share. For the purity of the experiment, I will leave the Singapore droplet alive for another week.