Topic: Why are the images of e621 loading really slow?

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I'm trying to check some images in the website but they are loading really slow, like 500 kbps around it. Other websites load faster, youtube is faster and everything except e621.net I don't get it. My internet is fine (speed is 10 Mbps) but e621 is still slow, I tried reseting my router and nothing.
Is the website good? Or is it because of Cloudflare host or something?

PD: Sometimes it goes faster, but then after some hours is slow.

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Darkys said:
I'm trying to check some images in the website but they are loading really slow, like 500 kbps around it. Other websites load faster, youtube is faster and everything except e621.net I don't get it. My internet is fine (speed is 10 Mbps) but e621 is still slow, I tried reseting my router and nothing.
Is the website good? Or is it because of Cloudflare host or something?

PD: Sometimes it goes faster, but then after some hours is slow.

Is this an ongoing thing, or is it just today?

Sometimes the site gets DDoSed, which can slow it down a bit, and sometimes it's the main site that gets hit and other times it's the image server.

Then I've also seen cloudflare temporarily block certain countries, or maybe just one their servers goes down, either way one country can lose access or be throttled if DDoS attacks are coming from there.

If it's just been today I'd say wait to see if it does the same tomorrow, and if it does then maybe try a free VPN and see if it still loads slow, to rule out cloudflare.

I've posted it in a few places, but ProtonVPN (https://protonvpn.com/) and Hideme (https://hide.me/en/) are free and apparently take your privacy seriously.

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