How to speed test a server! Tonight, I'm going to type up a short guide on how to run a speed test from a VPS. When I first got started on system administration, I was bamboozled on how to do this, so I think it would be great to teach all you new Linux users out there the simplest way to get a fairly accurate representation of your VPSs speed. 1 Download the script to use SpeedTest.net wget -O speedtest-cli https://raw.github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest_cli.py http://imageshack.com/a/img850/9713/kmbw.png wget is a command line tool that downloads file from HTTP, HTTPS and FTP servers. -O specifies the name that the file should be saved as. 2 Change the permissions of the script to make it readable chmod +x speedtest-cli http://imageshack.com/a/img820/7089/itvt.png chmod is a command line tool that is used to change the permissions of a file to allow it to be read, changed, and/or executed. Putting the +x after chmod tells the system that you need to make a file able to be
