Sorry...I meant to add my $0.02 earlier to the other thread, but got stuck in meetings all day and just got a chance to chime in, and saw it was closed. I just wanted to add my observation. If you deem not relevant, feel free to delete this thread.
So I've also had a very slow connection to THP for the past two weeks.
I've run Traceroute multiple times over two weeks and I get the following results
Traceroute www.thehotpepper.com
Traceroute to thehotpepper.com (207.58.163.142), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 10.0.1.1 (10.0.1.1) 1.098 ms 0.868 ms 0.814 ms
2 customers.reallyfast.net (162.246.94.193) 1.239 ms 2.201 ms 2.043 ms
3 ar1.terravita-ether3.reallyfast.net (162.208.40.25) 7.770 ms 5.822 ms 22.957 ms
4 10.0.48.1 (10.0.48.1) 26.708 ms 27.711 ms 19.871 ms
5 10.0.3.25 (10.0.3.25) 10.689 ms 6.312 ms 8.315 ms
6 cr1.colocenters-sfp1.reallyfast.net (162.208.40.34) 4.737 ms 6.812 ms 14.227 ms
7 10.0.101.13 (10.0.101.13) 4.454 ms 5.775 ms 4.609 ms
8 74-202-210-29.static.twtelecom.net (74.202.210.29) 15.539 ms 5.151 ms 4.603 ms
9 sea2-pr2-xe-1-3-0-0.us.twtelecom.net (66.192.253.122) 6.714 ms 11.997 ms 7.532 ms
10 ge3-0.cr02.sea01.pccwbtn.net (206.81.80.13) 9.937 ms 7.595 ms 12.280 ms
11 tenge10-2.br01.rst01.pccwbtn.net (63.218.124.70) 87.640 ms 89.866 ms 90.324 ms
12 servint.tenge10-3.br01.rst01.pccwbtn.net (63.218.125.22) 356.826 ms 145.059 ms 427.333 ms
13 sc-clm4234.servint.net (216.22.6.112) 107.919 ms 93.474 ms 88.837 ms
14 * * * * * * * * *
No matter where I am (work, library, my house, friends house) the traceroute hits "sc-clm4234.servint.net (216.22.6.112)" and starts timing out. I've also run traceroute when I'm connected to private VPN and through multiple online traceroute services and always hit the same timeout issue at "sc-clm4234.servint.net (216.22.6.112)"
sc-clm4234.servint.net is a server from "Smart Hosting Solutions"
The slowdown is definitely looks to be a dns routing issue in the servint network, well outside any of our ISP's network.
If you feel this info isnt useful, feel free to delete this thread. Just trying to help