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A couple of updates from Transcom ...
  • 25% off Nominet VPS servers — designed for running your catching setups.
    Just apply the voucher code TR4MSUM at checkout on our Nominet VPS page.
  • Free domain parking — park your catches at no cost while you decide what to do with them.
  • Plus a few other extras, with the voucher, to make managing your portfolio easier.
These VPS servers are built for reliability, latency (3ms RTT) and speed, so you can stay ahead when the good drops come around.

You can manage everything — your VPS servers, legacy licencing, domains and more — all in one place through TDesk.
Just log in at https://panel.tdesk.uk/auth using your email address.

Cheers

Bill
 
Where are these VPS located, Bill? Postcode
 
Hi Ben,

Iron Mountain, Slough, SL1 same AS as Nominet
 
And here is LD6 .........
SiteAddress
LD42 Buckingham Avenue, Slough US English
LD58 Buckingham Avenue, Slough US English
LD6352 Buckingham Avenue, Slough Trading Estate, Slough, Berkshire US English

traceroute to epp.nominet.org.uk (149.20.105.171), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 * * *
2 core1.ldn.binaryracks.com (185.65.207.193) 0.749 ms 0.745 ms 0.773 ms
3 * * *
4 be5556.agr61.lhr01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.25.6.161) 0.869 ms be5557.agr21.lhr01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.25.8.85) 1.281 ms 1.236 ms
5 port-channel8467.ccr92.lhr01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.3.66) 0.562 ms 0.547 ms port-channel8466.ccr92.lhr01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.1.150) 0.478 ms
6 be8666.rcr51.lon10.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.74.221) 1.750 ms 1.720 ms 1.647 ms
7 * * *
8 213.248.252.163 (213.248.252.163) 2.081 ms 2.033 ms 2.003 ms
9 epp.nominet.org.uk (149.20.105.171) 2.701 ms 2.244 ms 2.720 ms

  • The hypervisor measures ~3ms RTT to epp.nominet.org.uk:700, while a differently-transited box measured 22–29ms
  • Slough Trading Estate is the densest datacentre cluster in the UK — the Equinix LD4/LD5/LD6 campus among others — and is where the low-latency-to-UK-registry providers cluster for exactly this reason.

    Our catching infrastructure is hosted in Slough, in the same datacentre cluster as the UK's primary internet exchange and peering fabric, with a measured sub-4ms round-trip to Nominet's EPP endpoint — placing us in the fastest tier of network positions available for .uk drop catching.
 
Since the days of the DAC, I don't see how being as close as possible is much of an advantage anymore.
 
When a request hits the LB it's queued FIFO. It doesn't matter if you send your request from Mars.
Timing is the key, It's all about when your request hits the LB.
 
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Lazarus said:
When a request hits the LB it's queued FIFO. It doesn't matter if you send your request from Mars.
Timing is the key, It's all about when your request hits the LB.
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Right but you still want to be as lag free as possible to accurately time your entry, right?
 
a low, stable latency lets you spend your limited write budget as a scalpel instead of a shotgun........
 
Sorry, that still doesn't sound logical to me.

Factoring in your 1ms is the same as factoring in 3ms. As long as you are stable. "Anywhere in London", the result is the same.
You can still fire off in the same way; you are not wasting budget.

What is massively more important and what wins a catch is guessing the contested delay. It's a moving target determined by how popular the domain is. This is far more important than 1 ms here or 1ms there. I have in the past caught contested domains using my home broadband on a Raspberry Pi... with a Chat GPT script I knocked up in a couple of hours - Which must go to show that it's all about timing. And latency, not so much.
 
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Lazarus said:
Sorry, that still doesn't sound logical to me.

Factoring in your 1ms is the same as factoring in 3ms. As long as you are stable. "Anywhere in London", the result is the same.
You can still fire off in the same way; you are not wasting budget.

What is massively more important and what wins a catch is guessing the contested delay. It's a moving target determined by how popular the domain is. This is far more important than 1 ms here or 1ms there. I have in the past caught contested domains using my home broadband on a Raspberry Pi... with a Chat GPT script I knocked up in a couple of hours - Which must go to show that it's all about timing. And latency, not so much.
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interesting insight Laz, and you’re competitive? What has stopped you from creating a competitive code base?
 
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I was under the impression that their EPP server was in LD6
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Don't recall a recent update from 'tech' about how much of the systems have been punted off with the fairies ( the centrslised database has which may negate all the time/distance to edge stuff ) but the footprint shrunk to 2 suppliers, 4 locations.

For a company flogging dns as a service, they're terrible at maintaining the reverse :(
 
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