What is a good ping time for a good hosting company?
 

If you ping sites at a decent hosting company, what should a good average time be?

depends where the server is and where you are pinging from

every 3min. should do the trick

umm...wrong answer...thanks though

Under 1ms for me :thumbsup

Ping times are related to where you are in relation to the server.
Ignore ping times because most hosts filter or de-prioritize them at
the router level.

We treat ping traffic as un-important, and thus our router rate-shapes pings
and drops them intentionally. The reason for this is mainly because alot of
script kiddies like to do ping flooding and broadcast ping flooding/ala Smurf attacks
on servers, which causes major problems when pings are not controlled.

It would be best for you to worry about last hop packet loss and general connectivity
rather than a ping time. Utilities like MTR in linux are good to trace the route and monitor packet loss on all hops.

:-)
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