Why hosting a server?
By becoming a hosting partner, you are participating in a collaborative international project to measure the quality of broadband and mobile Internet connections.
Access to test data
As a hosting partner, you have access to accurate data, collected through test performed on your servers.
You are an ISP?
Give your customers the opportunity to test the throughput on a server located in the core of your network for best performances.
What are prerequisites
To ensure maximum quality to nPerf users, we only accept servers hosted in a data center to ensure high availability.The nPerf server uses the standard ports HTTP / HTTPS, so it is highly recommended to install it on a dedicated server (physical or virtual).
You are already hosting a speedtest.net server?
nPerf server can be installed on the same server.
Minimal hardware required
2-core CPU @ 1,6 GHz+ (2,5 GHz+ for 10 Gb/s connections)
4 GB RAM
20 GB HDD
1 Gb/s (or more) symmetric connection
Can be a VM (VMWare, Xen, KVM…)Linux 64 bits
Recommended system
Debian 11/12 or Ubuntu 20.04/22.04 dist with minimal install (without GUI stuff) and SSH server installed.
Installation process
nPerf puts all its expertise at your service to offer you two solutions. The service provided by nPerf is of course totally free.Wherever possible, we encourage our partners to opt for a server managed by our team, so we can deploy the updates more quickly.
Managed server
nPerf handles everything: software installation, server protection, maintenance and application updates. We just need a server with a distribution like Debian / Ubuntu installed and root access.
Unmanaged server
An installation process is available, on request, to assist you in configuring the server.
A strong knowledge of Linux system is required.
