Here is a really cool site to help determine Attacks and Traffic globally (be sure to check the appropriate box to see the attacks vs. traffic areas).

 

http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz1.html

 

I believe AVSIM is located in Virginia which is an "attack" hot spot.  But we're 157.7 % above normal for attacks.  Now why Idaho leads the way for attacks I'm not really sure??  I'm guessing they have a lot of credit card processing centers there?

 

Anyway, the above link might help some folks out to determine traffic/attack issues.  Web servers are always under attack, but frequency varies, why these attacks affect performance is because the server or router or firewalls have to deal (reject) the data.

 

So I guess my point is that AVSIM isn't the only site that is experiencing "slow" performance, and if servers are located in an attack hot spot or high traffic hot spot, they'll tend to operate slower ... also, the closer you are to a server will help considerably with performance.

 

My 2 cents,

 

Rob.

Interesting site.  Thanks for sharing it.  Luckily after very close scrutiny our IT guys determined the performance was not an attack.

lol the two hot spots... China and the U.S.

 

we've gone from the cold war with Russia to the net war.