The websites were moved to a faster server on Saturday - so any slowness prior to that is related to something else
The server is now in Chicago when it was in California last week - that may play a small role in your perception of speed - There are currently approx 200 poeple on the 2 major sites and the server load is VERY low. the server load is currently approx 1/5 to1/10 th what it was last week. The site is MUCH quicker for me now than it was before. Ive tested it from a number of operating systems and different connections.
To help figure out why your experience has changed try running a tracert to the server
If you are using windows click start then go to the Run line ( or seach line in Vista ) and type CMD - hit enter and in the black window type tracert nloc.net
and if you can copy and paste the results here - at least post how many hops there are between you and the server and what the max time was in ms
here is mine
Quote:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>tracert nloc.net
Tracing route to nloc.net [208.100.8.12]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms home [192.168.1.1]
2 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms FIOS
3 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms P0-3.LCR-04.DLLSTX.verizon-gni.net
4 38 ms 2 ms 2 ms 130.81.29.182
5 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms 0.so-7-1-0.XT4.DFW9.ALTER.NET
6 26 ms 25 ms 25 ms 0.so-5-0-0.XL2.CHI13.ALTER.NET
7 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms POS7-0.GW1.CHI13.ALTER.NET [152.63.69.181]
8 27 ms 28 ms 27 ms wbsconnect-gw.customer.alter.net [65.207.236.126]
9 26 ms 26 ms 26 ms entropy.nloc.net [208.100.8.12]
Trace complete.
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With all but one of the pings under 30 ms and only 9 hops, the site appears VERY fast to me.
there may be things that need to be tweaked BUT we need details to be able to know what to change.