I think it's quicker if anything this new host.
Good. :)
Didn't want to bias any opinions by saying it, but yes - it certainly was whilst setting things up - I was on broadband loading both side-by-side and this one was noticably quicker.
Some of that is simply having it London/UK based, rather than Netherlands - we gain ~10ms just from it being closer.
Oh yeah, and we're using a different web server - nginx instead of Apache httpd - not sure how much difference that makes generally, but it's more lightweight and copes with load better.
It does seem nice and nippy so far doesn't it! :-)
Do I spy another van race coming on?
My dad's van has got more junk in it than your dad's van
My dad's van has more mis-matched body panels than your dad's van.
My dad doesn't bother replacing them and drives too slow for any collisions to cause dents anyway.
Oh, I meant operating one's own server at home. I used to be an a huge German board (about 50k users) whose owner/programmer/admin operates his own server from his living room :)
And what sort of internet connection did he have?