HOST YOUR OWN SPEEDTEST SERVER ON CENTOS 7 VPS

SpeedTest.net has been recently being a global standard for broadband speed test. Many users use their service to test how fast their internet connection is. You know that you can even host your own Speedtest webapp using its Mini version? Well, you can! Simply follow very easy steps below:

 There is a video, or just go straight to the old fashion way, there are steps right below it.

INSTALL APACHE AND PHP

You can check how it works with our Linux VPS or Cloud VM.

Step 1 – You gonna need a webserver on it and Apache will be perfect for that job. So let’s start to install it.

Issue this command:

Step 2 – Next, install PHP and required PHP modules:

DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL SPEEDTEST MINI

Step 1 – Now grab Speedtest Mini package using wget:

Step 2 – Unzip its package and move it to web directory. Simply follow command lines below. Copy-paste each line one by one, not all at once:

p.s: If you not install unzip yet, you can install it with this command:

yum install unzip -y

Step 3 – Next, go to the web directory and rename index-php.html to index.html:

Step 4 – Finally, start Apache with this classy CentOS 7 command:

Finally, you can run it for the very first time. Open up your favorite web browser and give it a try. You can access it via this url:

http://x.x.x.x/mini

replace that x.x.x.x with your own VPS IP address.

You can check how it works with our Linux VPS or Cloud VM.