Ask HN/PG: Is YC (very|becoming) slow?

[krishna2]

I have been noticing load time of more than 5 seconds, esp. the home page. (or is it just me?).

[wmf]

HN gets slower over time; when it finally becomes unbearable pg fixes it. It may get worse before it gets better, though.

[jccooper]

Seems pretty quick to me. I checked a few times, and the median was about 200ms, though I did see the occasional 2s.

[ashishbharthi]

Related: Where is HN hosted? My best guess is EC2.

[diolpah → ashishbharthi]

ARIN lookup shows it being hosted at ThePlanet.

Traceroute shows it terminating somewhere in or around Houston TX.

So my guess is one or more boxes at ThePlanet's Houston datacenter.

[brackin → diolpah]

I'm running a theme so it's hard to tell but it seems pretty snappy for me.