Between fiber cuts and large DDOS attacks flying around the internet now, we are getting quite a few complaints about slowness to/from Africa, Middle East, and Asia/India, there is nothing we can do about these as these are taking backup routes that are much slower, longer, and since so many going over them also very clogged up with traffic.
This is impacting many sites based in the US, or even western europe.
I just wanted to update the thread since we are getting some chats and tickets about these matters.