Announcement from DigitalOcean:
Today we are thrilled to announce that developers can now launch Droplets in our newest region, London, United Kingdom.
Our community has been requesting a UK region for a while now, and we’re excited to announce that it is now available. It is through our users’ support that we have now been able to expand to five regions globally.
London is experiencing a boom in tech and entrepreneurship that looks very similar to NYC’s own tech expansion a few years ago, and we want to provide innovative companies in the United Kingdom with the infrastructure they need to grow and succeed. Additionally, we want to ensure that UK developers can comply with data privacy regulations by having a native facility.
IPv6 and private networking are available for Droplets deployed in the new London region. We are excited to see what is developed in the London datacenter and look forward to offering more DigitalOcean regions around the world as we continue to grow.
Benchmark results:
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 2399.998 MHz
Total amount of ram : 502 MB
Total amount of swap : 0 MB
System uptime : 5 min,
Download speed from CacheFly: 28.3MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 13.0MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 15.4MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 6.50MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 35.2MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 56.8MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 7.59MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 5.53MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 11.3MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 25.7MB/s
I/O speed : 164 MB/s
Source: Digital Ocean launches in London!