eKoIce Posted February 27, 2013 Posted February 27, 2013 Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to test your upload/download speed from your VPS and share the “famous” picture from speedtest.net ? Speedtest.net uses Flash to test upload/download speed which is a hassle on most VPS. The long way to get this is to install VNC and run it from a browser, but that is no longer necessary. We can now use Matt Martz python script speedtest-cli to accomplish this from the commandline. Prerequisites: Python 2.4-2.7 After you have installed Python on your vps download the speedtest-cli file from github If you have Python 2.X installed then run this: wget https://raw.github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest-cli --no-check-certificate -O speedtest-cli.py when downloaded execute with: python speedtest-cli.py --share after the test are run you will get the url to your speedtest.net image. heres an example ran from a VPS root@sdragon256:~# python speedtest-cli --share Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... Retrieving speedtest.net server list... Testing from Secure Dragon LLC. (199.167.31.222)... Selecting best server based on ping... Hosted by Hivelocity Hosting (Tampa, FL) [27.12 km]: 56.982 ms Testing download speed........................................ Download: 78.07 Mbit/s Testing upload speed.................................................. Upload: 58.69 Mbit/s Share results: http://www.speedtest.net/result/2481742413.png source: http://www.lowendguide.com/category/scripts/ p.s. This little guide Works only on Linux servers/vps with SSH2 access. Quote
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