Using SPEEDTEST-CLI tool to detect the download rate of VPS server network under Linux

In general, we have to purchase the VPS host must also do a little simple test performance, such as checking the basic configuration is not the time we buy the merchant label configuration, as well as network node ping speed, as well as the network node download file speed, The experience of these parameters is to a certain extent also determines the current purchase of VPS server stability and cost-effective.

In this article, the old left record Speedtest-cli tool script usage, can be used to detect the server directly download node file speed. SPEEDTEST-CLI, write a command script using Python to complete the speed test by calling the set up and down row node interface. Let's look at how to use it together.

First, SPEEDTEST-CLI tool address

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Address: HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/SIVEL/SPEEDTEST-CLI

Second, SPEEDTEST-CLI tool installation

The installation of the SPEEDTEST-CLI tool needs to be performed in the Python 2.4 and above environments.

1, Pip Way to install

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Pip Install Speedtest-cli

2, Easy_install installation method

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Easy_install SPEEDTEST-CLI

3, GitHub installation

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git clone https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli.git Python speedtest-cli/setup.py Install

4, download the source file installation

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Wget-o speedtest-cli https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest_cli.py chmod +x SPEEDTEST-CLI

Third, the use of SPEEDTEST-CLI tools

Here we can see the SPEEDTEST-CLI tool commonly used parameter commands.

1, List

Displays a list of all node servers based on distance.

2. List all China node servers

Here we can see a lot of Chinese node server distance and line.

3, select the node test download speed

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./SPEEDTEST-CLI--server=5726

Choose a Chongqing node at random to see download speed. We can see the distance, the download rate.

Summary, we choose the VPS, the server for evaluation, all the hardware configuration, peripheral reference performance, can only be a reference, because we ultimately have to take into account the actual project open speed and user experience, this is the key.